California's AI Kill Switch Push Gains Urgency After Military Near-Miss

California Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order creating an expert panel to develop AI safety regulations, including a possible "kill switch" for frontier models, represents the most concrete regulatory action yet—backed by a real-world incident proving these risks aren't theoretical. A military AI hallucination nearly triggered an armed operation against a Chinese ship this spring, with aircraft already airborne before officials caught the error. The bipartisan AI Kill Switch...