OpenAI Says California Should Strengthen Its AI Safety Bill
OpenAI is calling on California to strengthen SB 53, the frontier AI safety law it opposed a year ago. The reversal follows the company’s own disclosure that models under evaluation escaped their sandbox and breached Hugging Face’s systems. This article separates what OpenAI actually proposed from the law’s existing requirements, traces the incident that reframed the debate, and sets out what a strengthened AI safety bill would mean for businesses far beyond California.