NY Overhauls Transparency and Governance Requirements for Frontier AI Developers

New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed Senate Bill 8828, which overhauls the Responsible AI Safety and Education Act (RAISE Act). When Gov. Hochul signed the RAISE Act in December 2025, she issued an accompanying memorandum stating that "[t]he bill, as drafted, would impose broad compliance obligations on large-scale models without adequate specificity," and that she had reached an agreement with the legislature to make certain clarifications to the bill...... By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP