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The state’s first-in-the-nation law requires major AI companies to disclose safety protocols, report critical incidents, and protects whistleblowers

On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) signed a landmark law requiring artificial intelligence giants such as OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google, Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) and Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) to disclose how they plan to prevent their most advanced models from causing potential catastrophic risks.

Without Newsom's efforts, major reforms to California's stifling environmental laws would have died on the vine.

New York Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez introduced the No Masks for ICE Act, which would prevent federal immigration agents from covering their faces

California's green progress.

California lawmakers have introduced legislation that would bar local and state officers from covering their faces during official duties.

Local, state, and federal law enforcement officers who cover their faces while conducting official business could face a misdemeanor in California under a new proposal announced Monday

Plus: California zoning bill survives powerful lawmaker's economic illiteracy, Montana legislators pass simple, sweeping, supply-side housing reforms, and Washington passes rent control.

Bills designed to allow more starter homes and apartments near transit face an uncertain future in the state Senate's housing committee.