Bondi enters the technology advisory committee; the White House plans to use litigation to spar, and the AI regulatory battlefield has moved from Capitol Hill to state courts.

The Illinois House of Representatives has passed a local bill requiring leading AI companies to submit model safety plans, accept third-party audits, and provide whistleblower protection, making it another AI safety law after California and New York. At the federal level, policy is moving in the opposite direction: Trump previously said he would block state-level regulation, and he indefinitely postponed signing an executive order on large-model review and withdrew the draft. To prevent state laws from obstructing efforts, the White House appointed former Attorney General Bundy to the Technology Advisory Committee on May 26, with plans to use litigation to hedge against local regulations. Although groups such as the Progress Chamber of Commerce oppose the audit framework as still not mature, OpenAI and Anthropic have still publicly supported the bill.