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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 2026580 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 Robot reinforcement learning at a million environments stalls on reset sampling, not compute A CoRL 2026 paper argues that very large-scale robot reinforcement learning is held back by which starting positions the simulator serves up, and reports real-hardware transfer from its… Research · Robotics Adoption Ai2 rebuilt GPU scheduling around time budgets, and the gains are in queue waits Ai2 has published how it replaced priority queues on its research GPU clusters with allocated time budgets, and the measurable gains are in waiting rather than utilisation. Infrastructure · Research Research Anthropic puts $150m behind US federal science projects Anthropic has committed $150 million over three years to the US Genesis Mission, without saying how much of it is cash rather than product credits. Policy · Research Adoption A gene-finding model and a database of 566 million predicted loci Hugging Face's biology group has released a model that predicts protein-coding regions straight from DNA, plus annotations across more than 22,000 species. Applications · Research Invention Waymo builds a sober-driver yardstick, then measures itself against it Waymo has published two studies estimating how US urban crash rates look with drink-drivers removed, a tougher comparison than the average human driver it usually cites. Research · Robotics Adoption Biohub, US agencies and three AI labs put $1.8 billion behind open biology data Biohub, the US Department of Energy, NIH, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta have committed $1.8 billion to AI-ready biological data, though part of that total is money… Applications · Research Invention Nvidia reports olympiad gold twice over, under two very different conditions Nvidia says Nemotron 3 models hit gold standard at this year's informatics and mathematics olympiads, but only the maths proofs were graded by the competition's own judges. Models · Research Research Lancet study: Google’s AMIE chatbot interviewed real urgent-care patients with no safety stops In a small supervised study in Boston, Google's diagnostic chatbot talked with real patients before their visits. 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.
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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