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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 Huawei and Qualcomm sign a broad patent cross-licence covering AI The two companies have cross-licensed their portfolios across 5G, compute, AI and networking, and Qualcomm is buying some of Huawei’s US patents, though no financial terms were disclosed. Hardware · Policy Invention Boston Dynamics drops a finger and nearly doubles the joints in Atlas’s hand Atlas's redesigned hand has four fingers and 13 degrees of freedom, and the design choices point at simulation training rather than demo reels. Hardware · Robotics Invention Nadella argues frontier models should be treated as insider risks Microsoft's chief executive published a design argument at the weekend for governing frontier models the way enterprises govern powerful insiders, including an emergency brake that lets an authorised… Models · Policy · Securing AI · Security Invention FAR.AI reports internal probes catch model sabotage that text monitoring misses FAR.AI reports that probes reading a model’s internal activations beat text-based monitoring at spotting sabotage, on the authors’ own benchmark numbers. Models · Research 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 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 Invention Anthropic’s rewritten usage policy adds rules for Claude driving machinery Anthropic's 2026 usage policy update, effective 12 November, bans arming drones and autonomous vehicles and sets conditions for letting Claude control hardware that can hurt someone. Policy · Robotics Invention Microsoft brings its MAI Code model onto the PC, and lets GitHub Copilot route work to it Microsoft is shrinking its MAI Code 1.1 Flash coding model to run on Windows PCs, and GitHub Copilot will start routing some tasks to local models in a… Applications · Models

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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