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Federal AI Preemption vs State Laws: Colorado Retreats, California Holds and Congress Stalls

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There is still no federal law that overrides state AI rules in the United States. Twenty-one months into an administration that wants one, the score looks like this: one state law rewritten under pressure, one state law in force and untouched, and a federal bill that hasn’t been introduced.

The fight matters beyond America. The EU has one AI rulebook for 27 countries. The US could end up with fifty, or with one written by Washington, or with none. Which of those it gets will shape how AI is built for a large share of the world’s users.

As Washington Fights the States Over AI Rules, the EU Delays Its High-Risk AI Act Obligations to December 2027

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The United States has no federal AI law, and the administration’s main AI fight in 2026 is with American states that wrote their own. Across the Atlantic, the EU has the opposite problem: one detailed law for 27 countries, which it has just slowed down.

The EU’s AI Act was meant to bite hardest on 2 August 2026. That was the date when rules for high-risk AI, the systems that screen job applicants, score credit, grade exams or support policing, were due to apply. They didn’t. Brussels moved the date, by law, a month before.