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AI in the United States

Build fast, regulate lightly at federal level, and push one national rulebook that overrides state AI laws.

Profile reviewed 24 Sep 2026580 developments tracked

Stargate AI infrastructure pledge (Jan 2025)
$500bn
California’s frontier-model law, SB 53, in force
1 Jan 2026
Genesis Mission federal commitments (Jul 2026)
$5bn+

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Latest from the US

Adoption A&O Shearman says 93% of its lawyers used its AI tools in September, as it commits $1.1bn over five years A&O Shearman pledges USD1.1bn over five years to AI, mostly in lawyers' time, and says 93% of its lawyers used its AI tools in September. It gave no… Applications Adoption Some US shoppers can now text an AI agent that finds, carts and buys products on Amazon Amazon has begun inviting a small group of US customers to text Alexa for Shopping, which can search, build a cart and complete purchases, with millions more due… Applications Invention Humanoid robots now clean homes for pay in San Francisco, with remote pilots doing much of the work A paid humanoid cleaning service is running in San Francisco, but an independent test finds remote human pilots still do much of the work. Applications · Robotics Adoption Claude can now read your bank transactions to explain your spending, in a US beta Anthropic has started a US beta that lets paying Claude users link bank and card accounts through Plaid so the chatbot can analyse up to two years of… Applications Policy Prosecutors say AI-faked bosses and lawyers tricked companies out of $129m US prosecutors have charged three men with using AI to fake the voices and faces of chief executives and law-firm lawyers to get staff to wire more than… AI-powered attacks · Policy · Security Research AI is likely helping a frontier lab improve its models about twice as fast, outside review finds An independent review inside Anthropic estimates its models are improving about twice as fast as before, mostly because AI is helping with the research. Research Adoption Google’s AI will be off by default for school students, but Search goes with it Google will turn Gemini and Search off for K-12 student accounts until schools opt in, so a school that refuses AI may lose Search. Applications Adoption OpenAI promises to cut up to 1GW of data centre power when Georgia’s grid is strained OpenAI's new Grid Protectors Program starts at its planned Georgia campus, where it says it can free up to 1,000MW for the grid at times of strain. Infrastructure

Profile

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Strategy

America’s AI Action Plan (July 2025) sets out 90+ federal actions on innovation, infrastructure and diplomacy. The Genesis Mission for AI in science has $5bn+ in federal commitments across 278 projects (July 2026).

Regulation

No federal AI law. Executive Order 14365 (Dec 2025) set up a DOJ task force to challenge state AI laws. California’s SB 53 on frontier-model transparency has applied since 1 Jan 2026; Colorado replaced its AI Act with a narrower law from 1 Jan 2027.

Compute

Stargate targets 9+ GW across seven US sites by 2029, with Abilene, Texas the first live site (Epoch AI). Nvidia H200 exports to China have been licensed case by case since January 2026.

Key labs

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, xAI, Microsoft, Nvidia.

Notable models

Every frontier release is tracked on Model releases; the September 2026 flagships are GPT-6, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 3.8 and Grok 4.7.

What to watch

The first DOJ lawsuit against a state AI law; SB 53’s first year of enforcement; whether the Abilene site reaches 1.2 GW in Q4 2026.
Sources
  1. America’s AI Action Plan (White House)
  2. Genesis Mission update (White House)
  3. Executive Order 14365 (Paul Hastings)
  4. Colorado repeals and replaces its AI Act (Skadden)
  5. California SB 53 explained
  6. Stargate: where the US sites stand (Epoch AI)

Who builds AI in the US

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AmazonGlobal e-commerce and logistics company whose AWS division is… AMDFabless semiconductor company designing x86 processors, GPUs, adaptive silicon… AppleConsumer electronics company that designs the iPhone, Mac, iPad,… BroadcomFabless semiconductor and infrastructure-software company designing networking, broadband and… GoogleInternet and software company behind Search, YouTube, Android, Google… IntelIntegrated device manufacturer designing and fabricating x86 processors, GPUs… MicrosoftSoftware and cloud computing company best known for Windows,… NVIDIAFabless semiconductor company designing GPUs, CPUs, networking silicon and… QualcommFabless chip designer that makes mobile processors and modems,… TeslaElectric vehicle and energy company that also builds autonomous…

the US on the timeline

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  1. OpenAI puts conversational ads inside ChatGPT
  2. Anthropic lets vetted labs past its biology safeguards
  3. GPT-6 Astra attacks supply chains in UK safety tests
  4. Appeals court treats AI training licences as a market
  5. Judge dismisses publishers’ AI Overviews antitrust suits
  6. METR finds AI speeding up Anthropic’s model progress

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