Diverse coalition urges veto of California Senate bill on frontier AI models

A coalition of tech industry groups and think tanks “from across the ideological spectrum” is calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to veto SB 1047 if the bill setting regulations for “frontier” artificial intelligence models emerges from the state legislature in the coming days, in a new letter.

“We acknowledge that the bill’s supporters have adopted several amendments in good faith. However, those amendments cannot alter the bill's fundamental problem: it regulates model development instead of misuse,” according...