Newsom signs an order to explore AI rules.

This briefing covers Governor Newsom’s executive order to accelerate implementation of California AI oversight laws and explore additional controls for frontier models (including possible kill switches), and reports that the cybercriminal group ShinyHunters claims to have hacked the FBI and exfiltrated over two terabytes of employee data—Reuters verified that some records include names, addresses, and Social Security numbers—while noting uncertainty about the full extent of the breach and potential impacts such as identity theft and targeted phishing.