Trump and Xi open US-China super-intelligence dialogue
Trump and Xi established a US-China Super Intelligence Dialogue at their 24 September meeting, with the next exchange due by November 2026 and a bilateral channel for SI incidents. The White House fact sheet does not mention chip export controls.
Why it mattered It created the first standing crisis channel for frontier AI between the two powers while leaving the chip war untouched.
The leaders agreed to use the term super intelligence instead of artificial intelligence. The White House fact sheet does not mention chip export controls. Nvidia’s most advanced silicon restrictions stayed in place. The H200 license carve-out for about ten Chinese firms remained standing, with very few units shipped. The one-year pause on the expanded Commerce blacklist, struck at the October 2025 Korea summit, remained in place and expires in October 2026. On 20 September, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent proposed a US-China AI safety notification mechanism for Trump and Xi to consider at their summit, after talks with Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York.
- 2026-10-05: Corrected the White House fact sheet source date to 25 September 2026 (the event date is unchanged).