Posts Tagged ‘California’
The Catch-22 of California’s SB 53: The Legal Tension Between Disclosure Requirements and Confidentiality Obligations
By: Andrea Martinez On September 29th, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 53 into law, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, which is the first state legislation to impose public safety disclosure requirements on major artificial intelligence (“AI”) frontier developers, such as Google, Microsoft, and Apple.[1] California’s legislative efforts in this rapidly…
Read MoreAre Profit and Purpose Compatible? OpenAI’s Legal Battle
By Arthur Yolles When Sam Altman founded OpenAI as a nonprofit in 2015, its mission statement was to “[build] safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence for the benefit of humanity.”[1] This lofty endeavor attracted large-scale investors — namely Elon Musk.[2] Seeking to raise further capital, OpenAI switched to a “capped-profit” model in 2019 and, in…
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