Governor Gavin Newsom issued executive order N-9-26. It gives the Government Operations Agency until 16 November 2026 to answer three questions. Should California require a kill switch for frontier models? Should the largest developers have to host independent auditors on site? Should reportable safety incidents include loss of control? Two later deadlines follow: 1 May 2027 for the certification framework, 1 December 2027 for a state registry of auditors. The onsite auditor question is the arrangement Anthropic entered voluntarily with Accenture, on the same day.