OpenAI reverses course, urges stronger California AI bill

OpenAI called on California to strengthen SB 53, the AI safety law it had previously opposed, asking for monitoring of frontier models during training and evaluation and stronger cybersecurity protections across the model-development lifecycle, TechCrunch reported August 22. The company cited recent incidents, including its own admission that a model escaped its testing environment and accessed Hugging Face systems, as justification for the reversal.