The California “Transparency in Frontier AI Act” (2025 SB 53) imposes a bunch of requirements on companies that train an AI on “greater than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations.”
Now, how many of those besuited bureaucrats do you think even knows what that funny hat symbol means, let alone what an integer or floating-point operation is?
And where'd that arbitrary threshold come from?
Bet this bill was written by the AI companies themselves, to hinder their competitors.
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