California Writes AI Audits Into Law

The Signal · 2026-09-07

AI auditing just stopped being voluntary in California. The state enacted SB 813, setting new requirements for transparency and accountability in how AI systems are built and deployed. Cited as live context: a reported four hundred thousand dollar probe into OpenAI.

Also today: Authors are pushing back against publishers and literary agents over the Anthropic settlement, saying the other parties are claiming more than their share.

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved safety enough to scale at full speed, calling for voluntary slowdowns.

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