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The US produces more notable AI models than any country on earth and outinvests China and Europe combined. Only 17 to 20 percent of American businesses are actually using AI. On the 250th birthday, that gap is the most important story in business.
In ten days the White House signed an AI executive order, Congress floated a 269-page AI bill, and two legislators proposed halting data center construction. A clear-eyed look at whether any of it is actually slowing AI down.
Microsoft Build 2026 was not a product launch event. It was an infrastructure announcement: a unified agent SDK, OS-native containment, MCP-native grounding, and an always-on personal agent. The shift from AI that assists to AI that acts arrived.