// state oversight

Source: The Next Web

SB 813 makes California the first state to formalize third-party AI safety certification, creating a new regulatory layer that determines which labs can deploy frontier models and which verification firms gain legitimacy. The reported $400,000 token cost for a single investigation exposes the infrastructure expense of compliance auditing. Companies seeking approval will likely absorb these costs, effectively taxing innovation speed and concentrating verification power among well-capitalized firms.