Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed an AI regulation bill into law, signaling tougher oversight of AI risk and new compliance work for enterprises.

Illinois has enacted a first-in-the-nation AI safety law requiring third-party audits of frontier models, raising new compliance stakes for major developers.

The White House and House Republicans are jointly developing a legislative package to preempt state-level AI regulations, combining AI law preemption with children's online safety provisions as the 90-day deadline from Trump's December AI executive order arrives.

The Trump administration is preparing to sue states including Colorado and California over AI laws it deems burdensome, while also threatening to withhold federal broadband grants, drawing pushback from lawmakers across party lines.