Artificial intelligence companies will have to submit to third-party audits in Illinois and develop safety plans to avert potentially catastrophic effects of the burgeoning technology under AI regulations enacted Monday by Gov. JB Pritzker that mark the most stringent in the nation. The state’s new guardrails around AI megadevelopers such as OpenAI and Anthropic mirror similar ones instituted in New York and California but take a step further by requiring annual independent audits — all filling