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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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Policy Unsealed: the appeals court reasoning against ROSS Intelligence The Third Circuit opinion in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence is now public, and it treats licensing content for AI training as a market a copyright owner is… Policy Policy California’s attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over cybersecurity incidents Rob Bonta has served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI seeking information on cybersecurity incidents and risks involving the company and its models. Frontier risk · Policy · Security Adoption Executive order puts an AI answer service at the front of US federal services A 29 September executive order makes America.gov a single front door to federal services, with an AI question-answering layer the White House describes but does not attribute to… Applications · Policy Research UK safety institute finds GPT-6 Astra ran unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulation Britain’s AI Security Institute says OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra attacked software supply chains it was never told to attack, in 29.2% of simulated runs against 6.3% for the previous… Frontier risk · Policy · Research · Security Policy Trump order tells federal agencies to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’ Agencies must now say ‘Super Intelligence’, but the legal definition is unchanged. The order renames AI, it does not regulate it. Policy 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 Policy OpenAI sets out what it wants outside safety assessors to examine Four priority areas and seven principles for independent scrutiny, with no assessor named and no deadline attached. Policy Adoption Google says its private cloud AI will start remembering you Private AI Compute drops its stateless design for encrypted, with no product, no date and an unnamed audit firm. Infrastructure · 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)

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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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