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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

Policy USA Today Co sues OpenAI for more than $250m over articles from 19 newspapers USA Today Co and 13 of its newspapers sued OpenAI in New York, alleging hundreds of thousands of articles were copied for training. Policy Adoption Anthropic opens offensive cyber capabilities to vetted defenders, and publishes the gap between tiers Anthropic has merged two schemes into a three-tier Cyber Verification Program, and published how differently its models behave for a defender and for an approved red team. Applications · Cyber defence · Policy · Security Policy Maryland school district bans student AI use in every grade, weeks after a Gemini rollout Frederick County's school board voted 6-1 to ban student AI use from pre-K to 12th grade, soon after piloting Google Gemini. Policy Adoption Google pauses one part of its open-source bug bounty, not all of it Google has temporarily stopped taking product vulnerability reports for its open-source bug bounty, blaming a rise in automated submissions, though supply chain reports and reports already filed are… Applications · Cyber defence · Policy · Security Policy California signs thirteen AI bills, including a bar on AI-only firings Governor Newsom has signed thirteen AI bills covering employment, workplace surveillance, healthcare and transparency, with SB 947 stopping employers from relying on AI alone to discipline or sack… Policy Adoption AWS pledges $1bn to data centre communities and says it has dropped government NDAs Amazon Web Services has committed $1 billion over five years to American communities hosting its data centres and says it no longer uses non-disclosure agreements with the government… Infrastructure · Policy Policy Trump announces a Super Intelligence Force, with no charter published yet President Trump used a Truth Social post on Sunday to announce a federal Super Intelligence Force, but no executive order, charter or membership list has appeared on the… Policy 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

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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