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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

Adoption Google puts its first AI chips in orbit: what Project Suncatcher is testing, and why Google's first Project Suncatcher prototype is in low Earth orbit carrying its own TPUs, turning a plan to run AI compute in space from lab papers into hardware… Infrastructure · Research Adoption Anthropic bets $100m that people, not models, are holding back enterprise AI Anthropic's new Claude Frontier Academy will spend $100 million training 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027, an argument that the gap in enterprise AI is… Applications Invention OpenAI says it disrupted a campaign to extract its models’ hidden reasoning OpenAI has attributed a core cluster of an adversarial distillation campaign to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the Chinese lab behind Kimi. Models · Policy Invention Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, cyber defenders first in line Google’s new frontier model reaches trusted cyber defenders and a US government pre-release process before it reaches developers. Applications · Cyber defence · Models · Security Adoption Nebius contracts 50 MW of US data centre capacity from AIB A 12-year, 50 MW agreement in the southeastern United States, and a reminder that access to power is now the limiting factor in AI build-outs. Infrastructure Policy Unsealed: the appeals court reasoning against ROSS Intelligence The Third Circuit opinion in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence is now public, and it treats licensing content for AI training as a market a copyright owner is… Policy Policy California’s attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over cybersecurity incidents Rob Bonta has served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI seeking information on cybersecurity incidents and risks involving the company and its models. Frontier risk · Policy · Security Invention Boston Dynamics gives Atlas a 13-degree-of-freedom hand built to be trained in simulation Atlas gets a thirteen-degree-of-freedom hand with pressure sensors across fingertips and palm, designed so it can be trained in simulation rather than only hand-programmed. Robotics

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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