#us-ai-policy

#us-ai-policy

December 2025 closed out a transformative year for artificial intelligence with a flurry of major model releases, significant policy shifts, and massive infrastructure investments. OpenAI and Google went head-to-head with their latest flagship models, the open-source community delivered a stunning array of competitive alternatives, and Apple quietly enabled a new era of local AI clustering. Meanwhile, the US government stepped in to create a national AI policy framework, and the race to build out the physical infrastructure for AI reached a fever pitch. 🚀

The world is converging onto two AI stacks. One is championed by the People's Republic of China (PRC), state-directed, closed, and surveillance-heavy; ours is democratic, market-driven, and safety-aligned. Every country will end up on one of these two stacks, whether they choose to or not. The strategic imperative for the US is to ensure that the democratic stack prevails.