California advances key AI bills as lobbying heats up ahead of deadlines

California lawmakers are continuing to advance a host of bills to regulate artificial intelligence while stalling others, as key legislative deadlines approach and lobbying efforts heat up based on the common assumption that any newly enacted laws in the Golden State could be seen as models for other states.

“The last two weeks of session -- this is when tech starts to ramp-up its lobbying as we’ve already seen,” said Sacha Haworth, executive director of the Tech Oversight Project, a...