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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

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 Aurora targets 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 after passing 500,000 driverless miles Aurora says it will end 2026 with 200 driverless trucks in Texas and aims for more than 30,000 by 2030. Robotics Invention Microsoft’s robot measurements argue against onboard GPUs Mapping up to 383% slower, navigation down 30%, accuracy halved: Microsoft measures what a robot loses by running its own models onboard. Research · Robotics Invention A faster checkpoint for NVIDIA’s surgical video model NVIDIA has added a distilled checkpoint to its open-weights surgical video model, claiming a near thirteenfold speed-up, with the card explicit that it is not for clinical use. Applications · Research · Robotics 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 UK and US link defence AI teams as an undersea drone fires a torpedo for the first time The UK's rapid AI taskforce will work with the US Chief Digital and AI Office, announced days after a UK uncrewed submarine fired a torpedo. Policy · Robotics Invention Anthropic prices Opus 5.5 down, and prints the benchmarks it loses Opus 5.5 costs 40% less to run than Opus 5, and Anthropic’s own table shows GPT-6 Astra ahead on two of its eight benchmarks. Models 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

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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