California’s state senate recently gave final approval to a new AI safety bill, SB 53, sending it to Governor Gavin Newsom to either sign or veto.

If this all sounds familiar, that’s because Newsom vetoed another AI safety bill , also written by state senator Scott Wiener, last year. But SB 53 is narrower than Wiener’s previous SB 1047, with a focus on big AI companies making more than $500 million in annual revenue.

I got the chance to discuss SB 53 with my colleagues Max Zeff and Kirsten Korosec on the latest episode of TechCrunch’s flagship podcast Equity . Max believes that Wiener’s new bill has a better shot of becoming law, partly because of that big company focus, and also because it’s been endorsed by AI company Anthropic .

Read a preview of our conversation about AI saf

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