Illinois Enacts Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act - Technol…

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. 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.