{"id":174108,"date":"2026-01-02T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/new-york-raise-act-sets-artificial-intelligence-compliance-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:25:10","slug":"new-york-raise-act-sets-artificial-intelligence-compliance-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/new-york-raise-act-sets-artificial-intelligence-compliance-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"New York RAISE Act Sets Artificial Intelligence Compliance Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/natlawreview.com\/article\/new-yorks-raise-act-what-frontier-model-developers-need-know\">New York RAISE Act Sets Artificial Intelligence Compliance Rules<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/natlawreview.com\/article\/new-yorks-raise-act-what-frontier-model-developers-need-know\">https:\/\/natlawreview.com\/article\/new-yorks-raise-act-what-frontier-model-developers-need-know<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-02 17:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"natlawreview.com\">natlawreview.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Revised Thresholds Post-Amendment<\/strong>: Following chapter amendments set for January 2026, the Responsible AI Safety and Education Act (RAISE Act) will require developers of <em>frontier models<\/em> generating annual revenues exceeding $500 million to comply with the law.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Definition of Frontier Models<\/strong>: Frontier models are defined by AI systems trained using greater than (10^{26}) Flops (computational operations) and with compute costs exceeding $100 million. This includes models created through knowledge distillation using a larger model.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Compliance Requirements<\/strong>: Covered developers must implement detailed safety and security protocols, conduct annual reviews, perform safety incident reporting within 72 hours, and retain no false statements as well as protect employee disclosures.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>DFS Oversight Office<\/strong>: New York is establishing an oversight office within its Department of Financial Services, which will conduct intensive examinations similar to its cybersecurity regulatory activities.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Knowledge Distillation<\/strong>: The law explicitly includes smaller AI models created through knowledge distillation from qualifying larger frontier models, provided the developer exceeds the $500 million revenue threshold.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Enforcement and Penalties<\/strong>: The Attorney General will enforce the act with civil penalties up to $1 million for first offenses and $3 million for subsequent violations after amendments.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Implications for Frontier Model Customers<\/strong>: Organizations deploying models from covered developers must update contracts and prepare for operational impacts due to enforcement actions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Federal Preemption Challenges<\/strong>: Anticipated federal preemption challenges are likely, but compliance under state law is required regardless until federal courts issue final judgments invalidating it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York RAISE Act Sets Artificial Intelligence Compliance Rules https:\/\/natlawreview.com\/article\/new-yorks-raise-act-what-frontier-model-developers-need-know Publish Date: 2026-01-02 17:12:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/natlawreview.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_image\/public\/2026-01\/NY%20New%20York%20Law%20Book%20Gavel%20Litigation-466983829.jpg.webp?itok=XUEk811u","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-174108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174110,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174108\/revisions\/174110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}