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Illinois Enacts Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act - Technology
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Fusion42 · 20 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Illinois Governor Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act on 6 July 2026, imposing governance, transparency, audit, and incident-reporting obligations on developers of frontier AI models with annual revenues exceeding $500 million, effective 1 January 2027 with substantive compliance beginning in 2028.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Frontier Models, and 2 sources have reported it between 20 Jul 2026 and 22 Jul 2026.
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If you've built a frontier model worth more than half a billion dollars in revenue, Illinois just made you file a safety framework, hire auditors, and report critical incidents to the state - and this will become the template other states copy. You have until January 2028 to build compliance infrastructure; that's your real deadline, not the law's.
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2 sources · first reported 20 Jul 2026 · latest 22 Jul 2026
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