# California’s Newsom moves toward a mandatory AI kill switch while Congress stalls

With Washington unwilling to write the rules for artificial intelligence, California is drafting its own. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed an executive order on Friday that puts a state-required "kill switch" for frontier models up for consideration, together with a package of audit obligations that, if

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| Published | 22 September 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/californias-newsom-moves-toward-a-mandatory-ai-kill-switch-while-congress-stalls/