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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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Latest from the US
Adoption
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
Policy
Anthropic puts paid outside evaluators inside its own building
Anthropic will give evaluators from Accenture employee-level access to its model development, with no published standard yet for what they may report.
Policy
Research
Anthropic used Claude to speed up 30 open biology models
Anthropic reports roughly 4x average speed-ups after Claude spent four weeks optimising more than 30 open-source biology models — all figures its own.
Research
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
Research
Anthropic puts a number on how much AI research Claude leads
Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its own AI research work, up from under 1% in February, and wants rival labs to publish comparable figures.
Policy · Research
Research
Google open-sources a way to fake the freight data nobody will share
MilleMiglia generates synthetic freight networks so researchers can benchmark middle-mile logistics without the proprietary data carriers keep private.
Research
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
Research
A proof about what shallow transformers cannot compute
An IBM Research team has proved that constant-depth transformers and diffusion language models cannot match shallow quantum circuits on two specific tasks.
Research
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.
Who builds AI in the US
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