Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78. The significance of this obituary isn’t just “a beloved illustrator died.” It’s that a major piece of the public imagination of early personal computing has just formally passed into history. Tinney helped invent the visual language of personal computing.

If the bill numbers in Transparency Coalition’s weekly roundup make your eyes blur, that’s normal, and it’s also the wrong way to read it. This isn’t “AI regulation” in the abstract. It’s a rolling, state-by-state effort to write product-safety rules for the places AI is already touching everyday life: chatbots that impersonate humans, tools that can manufacture sexual content, systems that can imitate your face and voice, and—most urgently—interfaces designed to keep kids engaged.

Think of this update as an AI weather report:

• What moved this week

• What’s building pressure, and

• What’s likely to become enforceable next?

There won’t be a single national “AI law” that arrives all at once. There’s a patchwork forming in real time, and the pattern matters more than the bill numbers.