New York opens the RAISE Portal: frontier AI developers must register under the RAISE Act by January 1, 2027

Governor Kathy Hochul announced on November 10, 2026 that New York's Office of Digital Innovation, Governance, Integrity, and Trust (DIGIT), inside the Department of Financial Services, has opened the RAISE Portal, the registration system for large frontier AI developers under the RAISE Act, the state's Responsible AI Safety and Education law. Large frontier developers, the class the state defines by more than $500 million in annual revenue, must register through the portal by January 1, 2027, when the law takes effect; TechCrunch's reporting names OpenAI and Anthropic among the companies expected to register. At the same announcement, Hochul launched the New York Center for AI Responsibility and Research at SUNY Binghamton University, an independent research center of roughly 80 scientists that will evaluate frontier-model safety and feed its findings into DIGIT's oversight.

From January 2027, covered developers must publish safety frameworks on their websites, report critical safety incidents to the state within 72 hours, and publish transparency reports for their models, with penalties reported at up to $1 million for a first violation and $3 million for later ones. The governor framed the portal as the state refusing to rely on the industry's own assurances: “The stakes are too high to simply take AI companies at their word.” Hochul also said she intends to propose ways to strengthen the law in the coming months. The RAISE Act was signed in December 2025 and amended in March 2026, which moved its effective date to January 1, 2027, so the November opening is the registration runway ahead of enforcement, not enforcement itself.