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AI safety legislation approved in California

It imposes a series of obligations on frontier model developers.

Austin Jenkins

08:00 AM, Sep 14, 2025

The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cell phone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT’s Dall-E text-to-image model, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

California lawmakers have given final approval to a revamped artificial intelligence safety bill aimed at preventing catastrophic harms caused by the largest, most powerful models.

The bill’s author, Sen. Scott Wiener (D), announced the bill’s passage Saturday in a post on X. 

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