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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
Invention
IBM and NASA release an open lunar foundation model
A model trained on nine instruments across four lunar missions, open on Hugging Face — with no parameter count or licence named in the announcement.
Models
Policy
Anthropic’s September misuse report names specific operations
Anthropic’s September report names specific operations — twenty-plus government targets, 1.8 million Android APKs, 8,913 planted articles — all of it vendor-detected and unverifiable from outside.
Policy
Invention
Nvidia adds a fault-tolerance layer to its open-source quantum stack
Nvidia’s new CUDA-Q Logical layer targets quantum error correction rather than qubit counts, though the eye-catching speed-up figures come from partners describing their own work.
Hardware
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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