⚖️New York Opens RAISE Act Registration Portal for Frontier AI Labs

Your AI lab might need New York paperwork by January

New York is now enforcing one of the toughest AI safety laws in the country, and the frontier labs are on the hook. The state opened its registration portal on Tuesday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and other large frontier developers have until January 1, 2027 to sign up. If you build on top of these models, this is mostly the labs' problem, but not entirely. The RAISE Act forces large developers to publish safety frameworks on their websites, issue public model transparency reports, and report critical safety incidents within 72 hours. That means the model docs and safety changelogs you rely on are about to get more formal and more frequent. Teams with compliance or vendor-review processes should start asking providers where they stand. The numbers matter. Penalties run up to $1 million for a single violation and $3 million for repeat violations. The Office of Digital Innovation, Governance, Integrity, and Trust, known as DIGIT, will run the program and oversee large frontier labs. The state can bring enforcement actions against any company that skips registration. Watch how DIGIT defines a "large frontier developer" in practice. The threshold decides who is covered, and that's where the fights will happen.