New York opens registration under RAISE Act for large frontier AI developers
Developers with over $500 million in annual revenue face new safety reporting duties, overseen by a newly created office with penalties of up to $3 million.
New York has opened a registration portal for its RAISE Act, a frontier AI safety and transparency law, and large developers such as OpenAI and Anthropic must register by January 1, 2027. Companies with over $500 million in annual revenue will need to publish safety frameworks, report critical safety incidents within 72 hours, and release public model transparency reports. A newly created office, DIGIT, will run the law and can impose penalties of up to $1 million for a first violation and $3 million for repeat violations. Governor Kathy Hochul also launched an independent research center at SUNY Binghamton that will assess advanced AI systems and help review company safety frameworks. The law joins New York's existing companion-chatbot rules and a minors' chatbot law taking effect June 1, 2027, and it resembles California's SB 53 and Illinois's SB 315.
Why it matters
Large AI developers, including OpenAI and Anthropic, must now register and disclose their safety practices to a state regulator, which sets a concrete accountability standard beyond voluntary commitments. Because the law resembles California's SB 53 and Illinois's SB 315, companies working across these states will face similar requirements, and the 72-hour incident reporting window is shorter than the 15 days California requires. Public transparency reports and an independent research center at SUNY Binghamton give outsiders a way to check what companies say about their models.
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