New York opens registration portal for AI safety law, OpenAI and Anthropic must sign up

New York state opened a registration portal on 10 November 2026 for large frontier AI developers under its Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act, with companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic required to sign up before the law takes effect on 1 January 2027, TechCrunch reported.

What the law requires

• The RAISE Act covers "large frontier developers — companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue" — who must publish safety frameworks on their websites, report critical safety incidents within 72 hours, and issue public model transparency reports, according to TechCrunch.
• A newly formed Office of Digital Innovation, Governance, Integrity, and Trust (DIGIT) will implement the Act and oversee the large frontier labs, TechCrunch said. Penalties "can be as high as $1 million for one violation and $3 million for subsequent violations," and the state can also bring enforcement action against companies that fail to register, though a state spokesperson declined to give specifics, according to the report.
• Governor Kathy Hochul also launched the New York Center for AI Responsibility and Research at Binghamton University the same day; she first announced the centre in January "with $55 million in donations and capital," TechCrunch reported. Hochul said New York is "building a national model for smart, sensible AI regulation."
• New York's separate law requiring AI chatbot operators to disclose they are bots, and to try to detect suicidal ideation, is already in force; a related law on AI companions for minors takes effect on 1 June 2027, per TechCrunch.

Why it matters

The RAISE Act makes New York the latest US jurisdiction, after California's SB 53 and ahead of Illinois's SB 315, to force frontier AI developers into formal incident-reporting regimes rather than voluntary pledges. The reporting model echoes the EU's AI Act, whose Article 55 already requires providers of general-purpose AI models with systemic risk to "track, document, and report relevant information about serious incidents and possible corrective measures to the AI Office... without undue delay" — a compliance pattern that companies integrating OpenAI or Anthropic tools in Azerbaijan and elsewhere are increasingly likely to encounter from their suppliers, regardless of where they operate.