Governor Newsom signed EO N-5-26 on March 30, requiring AI vendors seeking California state contracts to certify safeguards on privacy, bias, and civil liberties - directly countering the Trump administration's push to strip state AI authority.
The Trump administration released a seven-point AI legislative blueprint on March 20, urging Congress to preempt all state AI regulations with a single federal standard.
The Trump administration's 90-day AI executive order deadline hits this week. Commerce, FTC, and $42B in broadband funding are all on the line.
Trump's executive order threatens to sue any state that regulates AI, but Republican governors, Heritage Foundation allies, and grassroots conservatives are pushing back hard - with Florida's AI Bill of Rights as the test case.
President Trump directed all U.S. government agencies to immediately cease using Anthropic's technology after the company refused to drop AI safety guardrails for the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Hegseth designated Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security.
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI will meet at the White House on March 4 to sign a voluntary pledge to build, bring, or buy their own electricity supply for AI data centers - but the agreement has no enforcement mechanism.
