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California has been a leader in tech lawmaking, and was the first state to pass a law mandating safety and transparency from the biggest A.I. companies. Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, signed the order partly as a message to President Trump, who has been trying to bat down state attempts to regulate A.I. ...
If the federal government designates a company a supply chain risk, which the Pentagon has recently done with the A.I. start-up Anthropic, California will conduct its own assessment. If the company isn’t determined to be a risk, the state may allow it to remain a contractor. ...
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