New York Opens Registration for Large Frontier AI Developers

New York State opened the DIGIT portal on November 10, 2026 to register large developers of frontier artificial intelligence models covered by its safety law. The program is run by DIGIT, an office within the state’s Department of Financial Services.

The developers concerned must register before January 1, 2027. That date also marks the general effective date of the main provisions of the RAISE Act, which was signed in December 2025 and then amended in 2026. As early as September, the state had announced a registration campaign beginning in November.

A public framework and confidential assessments

The large developers covered by the law will have to publish a safety framework and submit confidential summaries of their assessments of catastrophic risks associated with the internal use of their models to DIGIT, normally every three months.

The public will therefore be able to consult the safety framework, while the regulator will receive the assessment summaries. Registration and publication of the framework do not, on their own, demonstrate that a model is safe.

The amended law also imposes obligations on all covered developers of frontier models. They must publish a transparency report when deploying a new or substantially modified model.

They must also report critical incidents to DIGIT within 72 hours of discovering them or learning of facts that provide reasonable grounds to believe an incident has occurred. The public can also report incidents.

Starting in January 2028, DIGIT must produce an annual report and submit it to the officials designated by law. The report will include aggregated and anonymized information on the critical incidents reviewed. The law does not explicitly provide for its publication.