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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 2026588 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 puts GPT-6 in front of everyone, and publishes where it got worse OpenAI is rolling GPT-6 out to every ChatGPT tier worldwide, and its accompanying safety update names the evaluations on which the new models regressed. Models · Policy Policy USA Today Co sues OpenAI for more than $250m over articles from 19 newspapers USA Today Co and 13 of its newspapers sued OpenAI in New York, alleging hundreds of thousands of articles were copied for training. Policy Research Lancet study: Google’s AMIE chatbot interviewed real urgent-care patients with no safety stops In a small supervised study in Boston, Google's diagnostic chatbot talked with real patients before their visits. Research Invention Atlassian widens its OpenAI deal, with agents to be assigned work in Jira Atlassian and OpenAI have expanded a partnership running since 2023, and say they are exploring Jira integrations that would let teams assign work to AI agents and track… Applications · Models Adoption Anthropic opens offensive cyber capabilities to vetted defenders, and publishes the gap between tiers Anthropic has merged two schemes into a three-tier Cyber Verification Program, and published how differently its models behave for a defender and for an approved red team. Applications · Cyber defence · Policy · Security Invention Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2 under Apache 2.0, sized to run on a phone Google has published EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740 million parameter multimodal embedding model under a permissive licence, which it says runs in a few hundred megabytes of RAM on… Applications · Models Invention OpenAI publishes the maths its internal model produced, with machine-checkable proofs OpenAI has put a set of mathematical results from an internal frontier model into a public repository with Lean formalisations, and says the average result cost roughly three… Models · Research Policy Maryland school district bans student AI use in every grade, weeks after a Gemini rollout Frederick County's school board voted 6-1 to ban student AI use from pre-K to 12th grade, soon after piloting Google Gemini. Policy

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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