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#51 — Washington Mandates the Architecture. It Funds None of It.
The GUARD Act cleared committee and now waits for a Senate floor vote. It orders every chatbot company to verify ages, build crisis protocols, and disclose on a schedule. It appropriates nothing, to the companies or to the fifty-one attorneys general it deputizes to enforce. Georgia signed a chatbot law the same week. Colorado stacked three bills on the Governor's desk. Brussels opened the next phase of the AI Act. Four governments, one direction, one silence on cost.
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