New State AI Laws Take Effect as Trump Executive Order Signals Federal Preemption Fight

Summary

A wave of new state AI laws took effect on January 1, 2026, creating the most significant expansion of US AI regulation to date. California's Transparency in Frontier AI Act (TFAIA) requires developers of large foundation models (trained on 10^26+ FLOPS) to publish risk frameworks and implement safety incident reporting. California's AI Training Data Transparency Act (AB 2013) is one of the first laws globally requiring public disclosure of training data for generative AI systems. California's A