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AI Giants Back California's Landmark Transparency Bill
OpenAI, Anthropic Support AI Transparency Bill as States Adopt Frameworks
Artificial intelligence companies now officially want rules. For them, maybe, not for you. OpenAI and Anthropic have endorsed a New York State bill requiring transparency from powerful AI models. It’s a political move that looks like cooperation while their financial backers fund a campaign to unseat one of the bill’s own sponsors.
OpenAI and Anthropic backed the bill while urging federal standards, with Anthropic noting that two major states now have AI transparency frameworks. Some tech figures are actively opposing the measure: a super PAC backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI president Greg Brockman is targeting Assemblyman Alex Bores, a co-sponsor alongside Senator Andrew Gounardes, who called the law the "strongest AI safety law in the country." The law explicitly references California's approach as a benchmark. Amazon's AI assistant comes to the web with Alexa.com Amazon launched Alexa.com to bring its overhauled AI assistant, Alexa+, to the web for Early Access users, complementing its presence on Echo devices and the updated Alexa mobile app.
The site offers a chatbot-style interface for tasks like exploring complex topics, content creation, and trip planning, while emphasizing household workflows: smart home control, calendar and to-do updates, dinner reservations, grocery additions to Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods, recipe discovery and walkthroughs, and personalized movie-night recommendations. Alexa+ is also adding service integrations including Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp, alongside existing partners like Fodor's, OpenTable, Suno, Ticketmaster, Thumbtack, and Uber. Other News Tools Z.AI launches GLM-4.7, new SOTA open-source model for coding.
The model improves reasoning, coding, and multimodal performance with expanded context handling, agent-style tool use, and API access for real-time or batch integration.
So you have a public endorsement and a private war. The bill’s sponsor, Senator Andrew Gounardes, calls it the strongest AI safety law in the country. Meanwhile, a super PAC funded by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI’s president is trying to get his co-sponsor, Assemblyman Alex Bores, voted out.
It’s a neat trick. Support the idea of a rulebook, then target the referees. Elsewhere, Amazon is plugging Alexa+ into your browser to manage your life, and a Chinese lab releases a better open-source coding model.
The transparency fight is real. It’s also a sideshow to the actual work of building and deploying systems that no proposed law currently knows how to handle.
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Common Questions Answered
Why are OpenAI and Anthropic supporting California's AI transparency bill?
OpenAI and Anthropic are backing the state-level transparency bill as part of a strategic approach to AI regulation, signaling their willingness to engage with potential oversight mechanisms. Their support suggests a nuanced stance that seeks to balance innovation with responsible AI development at the state level.
What opposition does the AI transparency bill face in California?
A super PAC backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI president Greg Brockman is actively targeting Assemblyman Alex Bores, one of the bill's co-sponsors. This opposition indicates significant tension within the tech industry about the proposed AI transparency legislation.
How do OpenAI and Anthropic view federal versus state-level AI regulation?
While supporting the California state transparency bill, both companies are simultaneously advocating for broader federal AI standards. This approach suggests they prefer a comprehensive regulatory framework that goes beyond individual state-level initiatives.
