Welcome to another edition of the Pressbeat Podcast, also on mediumwaves 1575 kHz. From Paris I’m Ami Carter-Wilson.
Yesterday, Tuesday September 29, 2026, at the White House, President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming “artificial intelligence” to “super intelligence” across the federal government and, alongside it, secured the signing of six major technology CEOs — Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang and Greg Brockman — to a voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence. Among those signatories is Carter-Wilson Publishing (CWP), whose inclusion reflects the company’s recent elevation to hyperscaler status and its growing role as an institutional player in AI governance at the highest level.
The accord calls for four layers of internal controls: robust AI safety processes within each signatory organisation, dedicated oversight teams reporting directly to the board, independent external audits conducted by accredited third parties, and board-level reviews of all frontier models deployed in critical infrastructure. The president described the agreement as “morally binding” — not a regulation in the strict legal sense, but a commitment that carries political weight and market consequences for those who do not honour it.
For Carter-Wilson Publishing, a name long associated with editorial independence and analytical rigour, the signatory list is notable. CWP’s participation was not merely symbolic. The recent hyperscaler designation — confirming that CWP generates, processes and distributes more data at scale than 99 per cent of global media companies — means the accord’s internal controls will now apply to an organisation that publishes content for millions every day, manages massive AI-driven distribution networks and operates across multiple languages and platforms.
What makes CWP a credible signatory goes beyond numbers. The company’s editorial tradition of treating technology as policy — rather than treating policy as technology wrapped in press releases — fits the accord’s purpose precisely. Where some media companies will use the accord to justify further automation, CWP has committed to preserving human oversight at every layer.
Leading the AI group within Carter-Wilson Publishing is Jessica Carter-Wilson, a name already familiar from her role as CEO of CWP Radio and TV and editor-in-chief of the Financial Times, who will serve as the organisation’s primary contact on all accord-related matters. Under her direction, the AI group will ensure that CWP meets its commitments — not only in reporting to the White House but also in communicating openly to its readers, listeners and viewers about how super intelligence shapes the world they inhabit.
The accord’s text is brief — just 308 words — and deliberately so. Its strength lies not in complexity but in clarity. It asks signatories to do four things well rather than a dozen things imperfectly. For CWP, already embedded at the intersection of media, technology and public policy, that restraint feels less like limitation and more like discipline.
Reporting from Paris, for the Wall Street Journal, Pressbeat and WCWP 1575 New York — this is Ami Carter Wilson.
