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# Scott Wiener, author of California's SB 53 AI safety law, wins Pelosi's House seat on an AI-regulation platform

California State Senator Scott Wiener, author of the SB 53 frontier-AI transparency law (and the vetoed SB 1047), won the Nov 3, 2026 election to succeed Nancy Pelosi in the US House after campaigning on AI regulation (The Information).

## Key facts
- Reported Nov 5–6 by The Information
- Wiener authored SB 1047 (vetoed 2024) and SB 53 (signed 2025)

## What happened

Written from Techmeme's summary (paywalled source).

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 187 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 126 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon (training cutoff March 2026): 217 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 156 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [The Information: California sends AI safety lawmaker to Congress](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/california-sends-ai-safety-lawmaker-congress) (theinformation.com, press)

## Changes

- 2026-11-06 (filed): Created

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