> daily_signal(2026_05_13)
Colorado just gutted its own AI accountability law before it could take effect. The federal page documenting safety reviews of three major AI labs disappeared the same week.
Colorado lawmakers passed SB 26-189 stripping the 2024 bias-audit duty before it took effect. The Commerce page documenting federal AI safety reviews disappeared from the web. Hill County, Texas approved the first county data center moratorium in the state. The White House said AI is not killing jobs while tech layoffs hit 92,000. OpenAI shipped its first production AI tool off NVIDIA.
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Subscribe on Substack ›1. Colorado just removed the rule that would have made AI explain why it rejected your loan.
If a credit algorithm denies your loan, an automated hiring system rejects your application, or an insurance carrier raises your premium based on a score you cannot see, the only US state-level rule that would have required the company to explain how it happened was Colorado's.
https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/12/colorado-ai-law-rewrite-passes/
2. The federal page documenting safety reviews of three major AI labs disappeared from the web this week. No one will say why.
If you use ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, or Grok, the pre-release federal evaluation of those models was the only outside review of what those systems can do (and how dangerous what they can do is) before they hit your laptop.
https://qz.com/commerce-department-deletes-ai-security-testing-google-microsoft-xai-051226
3. A Texas county became the first in the state to try stopping a data center. Its own attorney warned them they would be sued for it.
If you live in a state that does not normally let counties block development, Hill County just tested whether the override exists anyway.
4. The White House's top economic adviser said Monday there's no sign in the data that AI is costing people their jobs. Tech layoffs hit 92,000 the same year.
If you lost a tech job in 2026, or your spouse or child did, the federal position on whether AI did it is now public and disputed: the White House says it did not, the layoff-tracker data and the CEOs who fired you say it did.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/trump-white-house-hassett-ai-jobs.html
5. OpenAI just shipped its first production AI tool that does not run on NVIDIA chips.
If you pay for ChatGPT or your team uses the OpenAI API for coding tools, the chip that runs the response you got back today might not be an NVIDIA chip.