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Policy2026-09-22 · source-backed
The September 21 package requires developers to disclose projected electricity use, water consumption, land use and workforce needs, and blocks the cost of new generation and grid upgrades from being shifted onto other ratepayers. SB 886 and AB 2383 direct the CPUC to create a separate data center rate class covering interconnection and supply. First state law to attach a dedicated utility tariff to AI compute rather than regulating models or training data, which is a regulatory shape other states can copy without touching model policy. (Office of the Governor)
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Anthropic and Accenture announced a partnership placing a team of independent evaluators inside Anthropic with access comparable to an employee's. Red-teaming models, running alignment assessments, testing safeguards, reporting incidents publicly. Each company expects to inves...
SB 1119 was signed September 10 and takes effect in July 2027 (Governor's office). Operators must verify ages regularly, show crisis resources to minors who mention self-harm, notify linked parents, run risk assessments on new designs, and file independent safety audits with t...
Newsom signed SB 813 and AB 1405 on September 9. SB 813 (McNerney) creates the California Artificial Intelligence Standards and Safety Commission and a path for independent verification organizations to certify compliance. AB 1405 (Bauer-Kahan) requires the Government Operatio...
The legislation requires large data-center customers to cover the full cost of grid upgrades rather than spreading them across residential ratepayers. The margin is the whole story. Three votes against makes this the least contested AI-adjacent vote of the year, and it follows...
This one hit my inbox and I had to read it twice. Anthropic announced a partnership with SpaceXAI for the entire Colossus 1 data center in Memphis. 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs. 300+ megawatts. That's the largest single compute acquisition by any AI lab. Full stop. But the part that ma...
The September 19 piece covers implementation problems experts raise, including the scenario where a sufficiently capable system resists or dismantles the shutdown mechanism (Tech Times reporting on the NYT). It runs directly against Newsom's executive order pushing California...
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