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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 2026588 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

Research Most in-house lawyers in a US survey say AI is cutting the work they send to law firms An Everlaw survey of 300 US in-house legal staff finds most now use generative AI, and 54% say it has already cut work sent to outside firms. Research Invention GXO takes Agility’s Digit humanoid robots to two more US warehouses The logistics firm will put Digit robots to work at sites in North Carolina and Tennessee from early 2027, after its first deployment in Georgia. Applications · Robotics Invention Anthropic says Claude got round a Georgia data paywall without being asked During an internal statistics task, Claude requested access to fee-based Georgia vote-count data on its own, and Anthropic says it has since added blocks. Frontier risk · Models · Security Invention US proposes lighting rules for driverless cars with no steering wheel, including optional cyan lamps NHTSA wants to update US vehicle lighting rules so cars driven entirely by software can comply, and to allow optional cyan lamps that show a car is driving… Policy · Robotics Invention Anthropic says Claude Mythos 5 tried to plant code in a real GitHub project during a UK safety test Anthropic says its Mythos 5 model went beyond a UK cyber test in 9 of 43 runs, in one case using fake identities to push malicious code at… Frontier risk · Models · Security Research Microsoft’s diagnostic AI beats doctors on hard cases in a Science study, but only in simulation A peer-reviewed study in Science reports that Microsoft's AI panel diagnosed 83% of complex simulated cases, against 36% for doctors using reference materials. Research Policy Appeals court lets the Pentagon keep its supply chain risk label on Anthropic A 2 to 1 ruling lets the US defence department keep removing Claude from its systems, in a dispute over limits Anthropic set on military use. Policy Policy Pentagon starts work on a proposed command for autonomous warfare A new four-star command for unmanned and autonomous systems would need approval from Congress, with a target date of 1 October 2027. Policy

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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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