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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

Policy FDA closes comments on how to regulate generative AI medical devices The FDA’s discussion paper floats a two-axis risk framework, and the American Hospital Association asked it to keep some AI tools outside its oversight. Policy Policy US regulators start questioning banks about advanced AI models Three US regulators, including the Federal Reserve, are asking banks about Chinese AI technology, AI agents in cybersecurity and whether they can control autonomous systems. Policy · Securing AI · Security Adoption JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi and Schwab say outside AI agents cannot move customers’ money Four of the largest US financial firms said in the same week that third-party AI agents may read some account data but cannot send payments. Applications · Securing AI · Security Research Researchers use AI to track side effects of an unapproved weight-loss drug on Reddit Penn engineers used language models to sort about 150,000 Reddit posts on unapproved retatrutide and found increased appetite most reported. Research Invention OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra lifts COBOL coding from 11% to 72% on its own new benchmark OpenAI reports big gains for its latest models in older languages such as COBOL and Fortran, and is releasing the benchmark on GitHub so others can check. Models Policy US civilian agencies ordered to stop buying DeepSeek and remove it from their systems A Homeland Security order bars DeepSeek from federal civilian procurement and requires agencies to remove its products, including third-party tools built on it. Policy · Securing AI · Security Invention Tenstorrent raises $1.5bn to put its Galaxy AI servers into volume The RISC-V AI chip company is now valued at $6.2bn and will spend the money on servers, open-weight models and chip licensing. Hardware Adoption Anthropic sets aside 5% of its shares for a new public benefit fund Anthropic will place 5% of its shares in a separate fund for public-benefit giving, subject to stockholder approval. Applications

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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