While the surf's been firing in Todos Santos, politicians up north are busy. Rhode Island's Governor McKee has signed a ban on chatbot therapy into law, and California lawmakers are pushing to ban AI public school teachers. Meanwhile, Arizona’s Governor just vetoed all three AI bills that made it to her desk. One can only assume these measures are crucial for protecting humanity from overly empathetic algorithms, but down here, we're mostly concerned with the next swell, not the next software update.