🇺🇸California enacted two AI-safety bills regulating external safety evaluations, with backing from Anthropic and OpenAI.

Financial_Express, citing Politico, reported that California Governor Gavin Newsom (纽森) signed two bills on Wednesday governing how external organizations evaluate AI-program safety. Anthropic had supported the measures since August, while OpenAI expressed support on Wednesday before the governor’s approval.

Newsom’s statement emphasized that AI development and deployment require effective safeguards to protect public safety. The supplied message does not include the enacted statutory text, implementation dates, penalties, or detailed evaluation requirements.

A separate message reported OpenAI’s support for four California bills: SB 813 on the infrastructure for independent safety evaluations, AB 1405 on AI-auditor standards, SB 1119 on protections for minors, and AB 1864 on AI-enabled biological threats. That broader endorsement should not be read as confirmation that all four bills were enacted; the signing report identifies two measures but does not name them.

OpenAI also said it was advocating mandatory national AI-safety requirements and would continue supporting state legislation until Congress acted. This is a stated policy position, distinct from the California enactments.