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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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Anthropic will relax Claude’s biology safeguards for verified labs
Verified life science teams will get access to Claude models with looser limits on biology work, monitored against a declared use case rather than blocked in real time.
Applications · Policy
Invention
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, with its own benchmark numbers
OpenAI’s new legal configuration of GPT-6 Astra passed 54.0% of a research benchmark it ran itself, against 38.7% for the same model with plain web search.
Applications · Models
Adoption
NVIDIA puts megawatt figures behind running AI clusters below full power
NVIDIA has published operating figures for capping GPU power across a cluster, including a megawatt shed in under a minute — vendor numbers, but unusually specific ones.
Infrastructure
Adoption
A children’s hospital moves cardiac device simulation from overnight to near real time
CHOP says open-source cardiac simulation now runs fast enough for routine planning, though the timings come from a vendor write-up and no outcome data has been published.
Applications
Adoption
Perplexity brings its local-first Portable Computer to Windows
Perplexity’s on-device agent now runs on Windows, but it needs an RTX GPU with at least 24GB of video memory — a floor well above a typical consumer…
Applications
Adoption
Mistral’s models go into Firefox’s Smart Window
Mistral Small 4 lands in Firefox’s Smart Window beta — with the two companies’ own posts not quite matching on regions or on data retention.
Applications
Adoption
OpenAI puts sponsored agents inside ChatGPT
Click an ad in ChatGPT and you can now talk to a business-sponsored agent, with HubSpot and Shopify distribution — and no stated answer yet on how these…
Applications
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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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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…