This week: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the state’s landmark AI Safety Measures Act into law. Sacramento went quiet as California legislators slipped out of town for their annual summer recess. Meanwhile in Boston, legislators spent much of the past week debating the sticking points of Massachusetts’ big privacy protection bill.

The law sets a strong new standard for regulating the largest and costliest AI models, known as frontier models. Illinois becomes the first state to require independent third-party safety audits with regular transparency reports.

This week: California Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted a new law requiring public school teachers to be human, while New Jersey legislators passed a Kids Code Act.