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Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California

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Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order asking a working group to report within two months on strengthening California’s AI safety laws, including whether companies should build a kill switch for frontier models. He vetoed SB 1047, which required developers to be able to promptly enact a full sh…

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  1. 2026-09-18 16:11 · The Next Web
    Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California

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