News Summary

• California’s state senate gave final approval early on Saturday morning to a major AI safety bill.
• SB 53 “requires large AI labs to be transparent about their safety protocols, creates whistleblower protections for [employees] at AI labs & creates a public cloud to expand compute access (CalCompute)” The bill now goes to California governor Gavin Newsom to sign or veto.
• Last year, he vetoed a more expansive safety bill also authored by Wiener, while signing narrower legislation targeting issues like deepfakes.