AI summary
- The SEC will host a public roundtable on machine-understandable data and super intelligence (SI) on 9 November in Washington, D.C., and it'll be livestreamed.
- One panel is moderated by Valerie Szczepanik, listed as the SEC's Chief Super Intelligence Officer, but the same programme still describes the first panel as being about how the market uses AI.
- On 13 October, RAEK said it had registered 26 generic .si names such as privatecompute.si and agentcontrol.si, while keeping its main site at raek.ai.
- Neither event changes the fact that most .si names are speculation and the aftermarket is small, so I'd only buy a .si when the .com and .ai are taken or expensive.
The SEC puts super intelligence on its agenda
The Securities and Exchange Commission will host a roundtable on 9 November to discuss "machine-understandable data and super intelligence (SI)", according to Crowdfund Insider. It's open to the public, it's being held at the SEC's headquarters at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C., from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST, and the SEC will livestream it on its website.
The programme description reads: "The program will feature panel discussions exploring how market participants use SI and machine-understandable data, the associated risks and costs, and ways the SEC can further support and enhance the use of these technologies."
Joshua White, the SEC's Chief Economist and Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, said participant feedback will help the SEC better facilitate its use. Chairman Paul Atkins is down to give the closing remarks.
Who's on the panels
There are two panels. The first, on how the market currently uses AI, is moderated by Julie Marlowe, Assistant Director of the SEC's Office of Data Standards and Innovation. Its panellists come from JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock, S&P, PwC, Two Sigma, Hudson Labs and Suffolk University.
The second panel asks what risks and costs related to SI and machine-understandable data the SEC should consider, and how it could better facilitate them. It's moderated by Valerie Szczepanik, whose title in the programme is Chief Super Intelligence Officer, SEC. Her panel includes Aaron Anderson, Chief Accounting Officer at Meta, and Rajat Gupta, Customer Engineering Manager at Google, alongside people from Workiva, Calcbench, Better Markets, Oath and American University.
Crowdfund Insider adds that financial services is one of the biggest users of SI and that agentic trading is already occurring.
What I read into it, and what I don't
For anyone asking whether "SI" will last, a financial regulator putting the term in an event title and a job title is a stronger signal than another speech. It's the kind of usage that ends up in filings, guidance and search queries, and that's what gives a word staying power.
But I won't oversell it. The same report says the first panel is about how the market "currently uses AI", and one panellist's title is Director of AI, Innovation, and Economic Opportunity at Better Markets. AI hasn't gone anywhere. Both words are in use side by side, even inside one SEC event.
You can see the same mix in commentary. Writing in The American Spectator on 19 October, Francis P. Sempa opens with "The promise and peril of artificial intelligence (AI), or what President Trump prefers to call “super intelligence” (SI), are being hotly debated throughout this country and throughout the world." He then writes "AI/SI" through the rest of the piece. That's where we are: two labels, one technology.
A company registers 26 .si names
The other development worth knowing about came a week earlier. On 13 October, RAEK, a Phoenix company that describes itself as building the data ownership layer for the AI economy, announced it had registered 26 .si domains, according to FinanzNachrichten.de.
The list includes privatecompute.si, firstpartydata.si, agentcontrol.si, sovereigncompute.si, memorylayer.si, modelmemory.si and solarcompute.si. CEO Cory Crapes said: "As we look toward SI, the question is not simply how powerful intelligence can become. It is who controls the information that makes that intelligence useful."
Three details stand out to me:
- They're generic phrases. None of them is another company's brand. They describe topics.
- The main site stays put. RAEK still points people to raek.ai. The .si names sit around it.
- The company is careful. The release says the registrations don't announce operational SI capabilities or product launches, that RAEK uses SI as "a forward-looking branding interpretation", and that .si remains Slovenia's country-code domain.
Note that these were registrations. The release doesn't say RAEK paid an aftermarket price for any of them, so it isn't evidence of resale demand.
Where finance and data names fit
If the SEC event tells you anything, it's that finance is where SI language is being tested first. A few names in my inventory sit in that space, and I'll stick to their data:
- bankability.si, $2,500. It has the highest US cost per click in my portfolio at $15.26 and 6,600 searches a month. The .ai is listed at $49,800 and the .com has been parked since 2002.
- microloans.si, $2,500. The .com asks $150,000, the .ai $26,888, and US advertisers pay $7.63 a click. It gets 18,100 searches a month.
- aimarket.si, $4,500. The .com is listed at $594,888 and the .ai at $47,995, with 12,100 searches a month.
- brainbank.si, $1,500. It's closer to RAEK's memory theme. The .ai is priced at $399,999 and the .com has been held since 1995, though searches are modest at 1,600 a month.
To be clear, nothing in the SEC programme mentions domains, and none of these names is tied to the event.
Should you buy a .si name because of this?
Not because of a roundtable. A regulator using the word SI is a useful signal, but it doesn't create buyers overnight. Most .si names are speculation, and the .si aftermarket is small, so you shouldn't expect to resell quickly or at a profit.
If you need a name you'll actually build on, run it through my three-question test:
- Are the .com and .ai taken or expensive? If the .com is available at a fair price, buy the .com. It's still the better buy for most businesses.
- Is it a generic name and not a brand? Plain words like "private compute" or "microloans" are fine. A name copying the SEC, a bank or any one company's brand isn't, and I wouldn't touch it.
- Do people search for it? Real monthly searches and a real cost per click tell you the words have demand outside the SI news cycle.
If a name passes all three, a .si can be a sensible, cheaper home next to a .com or .ai you can't get, which is roughly what RAEK did. If it fails any of them, I'd walk away. You can browse what I've got at aidomains.si.
Names from this store that pass the test
Questions
When is the SEC roundtable on super intelligence?
It's on 9 November at the SEC's headquarters, 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C., from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST. It's open to the public and the SEC will livestream it on its website.
Who is the SEC's Chief Super Intelligence Officer?
The programme lists Valerie Szczepanik as Chief Super Intelligence Officer, SEC. She moderates the second panel, which covers the risks and costs of SI and how the SEC could better facilitate it.
Which .si domains did RAEK register?
RAEK announced 26 .si registrations on 13 October, including privatecompute.si, firstpartydata.si, agentcontrol.si, sovereigncompute.si and solarcompute.si. The company says the registrations don't announce operational SI capabilities or product launches.
Does the SEC event mention .si domains?
No. The roundtable is about how market participants use SI and machine-understandable data, the risks and costs, and how the SEC can support their use.
Sources
- Crowdfund Insider, 2026-10-19
- FinanzNachrichten.de, 2026-10-13
- The American Spectator, 2026-10-19
This post was researched and drafted with AI help from the sources above, then checked by me before publishing. Facts are as reported on the dates shown.