Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) signed S.B. 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act, requiring frontier AI developers earning more than $500 million in revenue to identify, disclose and mitigate risks and to submit to independent inspections of AI systems under state jurisdiction, per CBS. The law takes effect Jan. 1, 2027 and requires public disclosure of safety and security practices, reporting of significant AI safety incidents, internal compliance programs and confidential whistleblower channels for employees raising AI safety concerns. The legislation passed nearly unanimously in the Illinois Senate and House in May and was modeled on 2025 laws in New York and California, per CBS Chicago. Pritzker said "As AI systems become more powerful and the federal government is unwilling to step in, states have a responsibility to protect our people from the dangers of AI while still harnessing the unique potential of the technology," Pritzker said. Anthropic's state and local government lead Cesar Fernandez endorsed the law.
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A leaked Treasury Department internal report obtained by NOTUS warns that AI firms are more deeply entrenched in the U.S. economy than dotcom predecessors and could trigger widespread financial damage if market conditions deteriorate or productivity goals go unmet. Treasury analysts wrote that "A downturn in the AI market would send shockwaves throughout the entire economic ecosystem." The report identifies stock markets, private credit markets, data center financiers, cloud providers, chip manufacturers and utilities as vulnerable to an AI downturn. NOTUS reported: "Publicly, the Trump administration is bullish about AI. Privately, some of its analysts are weighing AI against the dotcom bust." The Trump administration created the AI Action Plan, speeding construction of generative AI data centers, and rescinded prior Biden era AI regulations.
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres said lethal autonomous weapons should be "banned by international law" at the opening of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva. Addressing delegates from all 193 UN member states, Guterres said AI is advancing at runaway speed and that the technology is being deployed as an experiment on societies without a plan or consent, per Arab News. He unveiled a new AI Child Safety Pledge alongside the release of the first report from the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence. Guterres said any future international agreement on AI must earn global trust and put child safety first, per the UN Office at Geneva.
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Sarah Kreps, director of Cornell's Tech Policy Institute and a Brookings nonresident senior fellow, argues that federal AI strategy will fail without an institutional model that secures local buy-in for data centers, transmission lines and other physical infrastructure. She contrasts China's ability to override local opposition with the veto power U.S. communities hold, pointing to Chandler, Arizona's rejection of a Meta- and Microsoft-backed data center and organized opposition across northern Virginia's more than 250 facilities as evidence the current model is straining. Kreps cites Amazon's Umatilla, Oregon site, where years of tax revenue and STEM funding shifted local sentiment, as a model worth replicating. She proposes three fixes: standardized, independently verified disclosure of water, power, emissions and tax impacts; formal local-benefit mechanisms like job training and waste-heat reuse; and standing liaison bodies of residents, officials and companies.
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