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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.
- 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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Invention
Nvidia starts qualifying batteries and coolers for AI sites
Nvidia’s new DSX Ready programme certifies batteries and cooling units for AI sites. One category is reviewed by Nvidia, the other self-attested.
Hardware · Infrastructure
Invention
Grok 4.7 competes on price, not on top scores
SpaceXAI holds Grok 4.6 prices for its new flagship, which trails Fable 5.1 on most of the benchmarks it published. The pitch is cost per task.
Models
Invention
NVIDIA ships Isaac ROS 5.0 with agent-readable robotics workflows
A free, open-source robotics release built so that coding agents, not just humans, can drive the toolchain.
Applications · Robotics
Invention
OpenAI rebuilds prompt caching for GPT-6
Cheaper reuse of repeated context, a 30-minute cache window, and two pages from the same publisher that state the discount differently.
Infrastructure · Models
Invention
OpenAI adds GPT-6 Sol and Luna, halving API prices
OpenAI’s two cheaper GPT-6 models undercut their predecessors by half, and the benchmark claims come with caveats worth reading.
Models
Invention
NVIDIA documents its open speech-to-speech model, weak spots included
The technical report for NVIDIA's open full-duplex speech model reports strong interruption handling alongside noticeably weaker tool-calling accuracy.
Models · Research
Invention
Google ships Gemini 3.8 Live for real-time voice agents
Google’s new Gemini 3.8 Live audio models complete 35.1% of Sierra’s τ-Voice-banking tasks — the figure that says most about where voice agents actually are.
Models
Invention
Moonshot’s Kimi K3 arrives on Amazon Bedrock
The open-weight 2.8-trillion-parameter model is now available behind AWS procurement terms, and is the first open model on Bedrock with explicit prompt caching.
Models
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.
Who builds AI in the US
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