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California AI efforts run up against GOP's hands-off approach

California state lawmakers have ramped up efforts to regulate AI in their latest session, putting the Golden State on a collision course with a Republican effort to impose a national ban on such policies.

As the AI race heats up, President Trump and GOP lawmakers have sought to eliminate regulations they argue could stifle innovation, while states forge ahead with attempts to place guardrails on the technology.

But California sits in a unique position. As the home of Silicon Valley and the center of the AI boom, it could play an outsized role in defining the future of AI regulation — both inside and outside its borders.

“We dominate in artificial intelligence. We have no peers,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D

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