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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 Cloudflare releases its first open-weight models, and they do not write text Clef and Clef-flash answer typed questions with a probability for each allowed option instead of generating prose, and the weights are on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Infrastructure · Models Invention Nvidia and Microsoft put agent-scale compute on the Windows desktop RTX Spark laptops go on sale on 16 October and a Windows version of Nvidia DGX Station enters preview, both aimed at running large models on the machine… Hardware · Infrastructure Invention Boston Dynamics hands the top job to Rohit Prasad, the Amazon scientist behind Alexa and Nova Boston Dynamics has picked a foundation-model builder, not a roboticist, to lead its push into physical AI. Robotics Invention AWS publishes an open Physical AI Toolchain for taking robot policies from simulation to the edge A free, modular set of reference architectures that strings NVIDIA's robot-learning stack across AWS, from synthetic data to deployment on the robot. Infrastructure · Robotics Invention Waymo borrows $5bn in its first debt financing as robotaxi expansion speeds up Large credit funds are now lending to a robotaxi operator, a sign that driverless rides are being financed like a business rather than a research bet. Robotics Invention Nvidia reports olympiad gold twice over, under two very different conditions Nvidia says Nemotron 3 models hit gold standard at this year's informatics and mathematics olympiads, but only the maths proofs were graded by the competition's own judges. Models · Research Invention Anthropic cuts small-model pricing by 90% with Claude Haiku 5.5 Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens on prompts up to 100,000 tokens, which Anthropic says is 90% below Haiku 4.5, though it uses slightly more… Applications · Models Invention OpenAI puts GPT-6 in front of everyone, and publishes where it got worse OpenAI is rolling GPT-6 out to every ChatGPT tier worldwide, and its accompanying safety update names the evaluations on which the new models regressed. 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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