26 AG offices push federal AI rules

New York Attorney General Letitia James led 25 other attorneys general in urging Congress to create a federal AI framework with safety testing, incident response, and no preemption of state law. The coalition’s announcement says unchecked development threatens financial systems, critical infrastructure, and national security; its 26 AG offices want government-led benchmarks and public incident findings. Operators shipping agents into regulated markets should treat this as a state-enforcement signal, extending the archive’s map of state AI-law patchwork.