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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 Microsoft opens up a retrosynthesis model chemists preferred Microsoft has published its retrosynthesis model in Nature and released the weights under MIT. Blind-test chemists preferred its route suggestions. Applications · Research Research OpenAI claims 100 solved maths problems, and appoints watchers OpenAI says an internal model has resolved over 100 open maths problems, and names nine mathematicians to advise on how such results are released. Policy · Research Research Blue Cross insurers say hospital AI coding tools added $942 million in claims costs A Blue Cross Blue Shield Association analysis blames hospital AI billing tools for higher claims costs; hospitals dispute it. Research Adoption Google’s Pixel Watch can now call an ambulance by itself in Europe Breathing Emergency Detection escalates on its own, and Google publishes no accuracy figures and names no countries. Applications Invention Perplexity’s local agent runs on AMD Ryzen AI Max PCs Running inference locally lets agents skip metered cloud credits, but AMD names no models, no figures and no supported systems. Applications · Hardware Adoption Perplexity replaces its search backend with an in-house engine Photon cut estimated cost per task by 68%,, Perplexity says, and it labels its own latency figures self-reported. Infrastructure Adoption Databricks adds central control for coding agents Admins get one place to set which coding agents, models and tools developers use, and what they may spend. All the savings figures are vendor-supplied. Applications · Infrastructure Invention Google’s long-form video stack, scored on benchmarks it built itself Four frameworks wrap Gemini and Veo to keep minutes-long video coherent, and the headline 81.4 comes from a benchmark the same team made. Models · Research

Profile

Reviewed monthly · Sources (6)

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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