California accelerates AI-auditor rules and orders frontier-safety proposals
California enacted SB 813 and AB 1405 to establish independent-verifier criteria and an AI Auditor Registry. Executive Order N-9-26 now moves the verifier-criteria deadline to 1 May 2027, directs earlier registry work by 1 December 2027, and requires November 2026 recommendations on onsite evaluators, independently verified safety filings, a continuously tested frontier-model kill switch and broader loss-of-control incident reporting.
Why it matters: The laws regulate who can offer covered AI audits; the executive order now shortens implementation milestones and creates a near-term path toward stronger frontier-model duties. Buyers and developers need to distinguish the binding accelerated agency…