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With no comprehensive federal AI law in the United States, states have stopped waiting. Colorado, California, and a growing list of others are writing binding AI rules that are becoming the real compliance floor for any company selling into the US market.
Most coverage of the EU AI Act focused on the ban on the worst use cases, which took effect first and affected almost nobody building ordinary products. The obligations that actually touch mainstream AI development are arriving in phases most teams have not scheduled for.