California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order directing agencies to craft artificial-intelligence procurement standards within four months, setting requirements for vendors to curb child sexual-abuse material, violent pornography and discriminatory outcomes, and to develop watermarking practices for AI-generated media. The move puts the nation’s largest state at odds with the Trump administration’s December framework discouraging state-level rules and empowering the Justice Department to challenge them. The order underscores escalating tension between state efforts to police fast-moving AI risks and federal calls to avoid “cumbersome” regulation, as states advance more than 100 AI-related measures aimed at safety, copyright and child protections.
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