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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 Ai2 open-sources an 8B report-writing model, and says plainly how old the evaluation is The Allen Institute for AI has released AstaBrief 8B with its training data, and states that most of the evaluation was completed in 2025 and has not been… Models · Research Adoption A new benchmark checks whether the database changed, not whether the agent said it did Microsoft and Hugging Face have released ThinkingBox, which finds that most agent runs failing an executable database check still finish cleanly and report no error. Applications · Research Adoption OpenAI puts ads inside ChatGPT image generation OpenAI will start testing a visual ad format inside ChatGPT's image generation later this month in the US, and says the ads will be clearly labelled and kept… Applications Adoption Google pauses one part of its open-source bug bounty, not all of it Google has temporarily stopped taking product vulnerability reports for its open-source bug bounty, blaming a rise in automated submissions, though supply chain reports and reports already filed are… Applications · Cyber defence · Policy · Security Policy California signs thirteen AI bills, including a bar on AI-only firings Governor Newsom has signed thirteen AI bills covering employment, workplace surveillance, healthcare and transparency, with SB 947 stopping employers from relying on AI alone to discipline or sack… Policy Invention TikTok launches an AI shopping assistant that can complete purchases in chat TikTok's new Shopping Assistant answers product questions and can finish a purchase inside the conversation. Models Research A legal research benchmark marks the best agent fully correct on 43% of questions A new benchmark marks a legal research answer correct only if every required point is covered and every citation checks out, and the strongest of thirteen models tested… Research Adoption AWS pledges $1bn to data centre communities and says it has dropped government NDAs Amazon Web Services has committed $1 billion over five years to American communities hosting its data centres and says it no longer uses non-disclosure agreements with the government… Infrastructure · 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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