I think the technical workaround for developers is to require the IP address for API capability access to the developer's customers as well, and thereby shut off access not just to your site, but all enterprise development services, for anyone in Texas. Coupled with a change to T's & C's for API Usage, and this could be used to shift some liability to the enterprise developers for putting in reasonable safeguards to block Texas-customer access too, which in turn would almost certainly ha e second order negative effects on Texas businesses and innovation too. Simply put, they would be at a competitive disadvantage to any other state without such laws in place.

This is unfortunately precisely what many (dare I say most) AI companies will do should this become law. They simply will not be able to operate in a patchwork quilt of onerous regulations in every state — Texas being just one — that wants to "regulate safety" into AI systems. The legal risk will be too great.