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NY RAISE Act: The Registration Countdown Is On

New York put a face and a calendar on the RAISE Act: registration opens in November, a deputy director is named, and the 72-hour reporting clock is real. Here's what changed since September — and what it means for your evidence.

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Texas Just Turned On Its AI Complaint Portal

Texas's AI complaint portal went live September 1. Complaints are now the on-ramp to AG investigations under TRAIGA — and the law's safe harbor names adversarial testing and NIST conformance as the way out.

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NY RAISE Act: Registration Opens in November

New York starts registering frontier AI developers in November. The RAISE Act is a reporting law — its teeth are in the evidence. Here's the reporting machinery teams need before January 2027.

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Data Center Outage Resilience and AI Ops Agents | Data Center Reliability Roundup

Cloud outage resilience guidance, CoreWeave's new AI operations agent, and neocloud buildouts headline this cycle, each with real consequences for uptime and maintenance.

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Pharma AI Agents Face New Regulatory Guardrails — AI Validation Roundup

Pharma weighs guardrails for autonomous AI agents as states fill the federal privacy gap and the EU AI Act moves toward enforcement, raising the validation bar.

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State AI Law Patchwork Widens as Federal Rules Stall — AI Validation Roundup

State AI laws now span dozens of jurisdictions while California adds deployment rules and federal action stalls, raising the bar for auditable AI evidence.

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Healthcare AI Validation Found Inconsistent Across Providers — AI Validation Roundup

A new survey finds healthcare AI testing widespread but uneven, while the EU AI Act moves into active enforcement with fresh transparency duties.

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EU AI Act Transparency Rules Now Carry €35M Fines — AI Validation Roundup

EU AI Act transparency obligations are enforceable with fines to €35M, plus healthcare AI's next hurdle in Europe and a widening US federal policy gap.

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EU AI Act Enforcement Begins August 2 — AI Validation Roundup

EU AI Act enforcement starts August 2, alongside digital health AI updates, new US state and federal AI bills, and the Fannie Mae AI governance deadline.

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EU AI Act Omnibus Delays High-Risk Database to 2027 — AI Validation Roundup

The AI Act Omnibus enters into force with a near-term transparency deadline, the high-risk database slips to 2027, and US states fight a federal freeze.

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AI Evals and Governance-as-Code for Regulated Operators — AI Validation Roundup

Practical guidance on AI evaluations and governance-as-code for regulated operators, plus the latest state and federal AI law shifts this cycle.

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Illinois AI Law Raises the Bar for Regulated Deployers — AI Validation Roundup

Illinois passes a tough new AI law, the EU AI Act puts executives personally on the hook, and life sciences AI validation stays center stage.

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AI Validation Roundup: July 1, 2026

Colorado's AI Act hits its effective date, the EU adopts Omnibus VII and issues draft high-risk guidance, and governance liability moves to the CFO.

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AI Validation Roundup: June 15, 2026

State-vs-federal AI fights, tightening EU enforcement, and a bank testing crisis: what regulated AI teams need to watch.

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IQ/OQ/PQ: The FDA's 30-Year Software Playbook, Applied to AI

Governance tools say you're documented. Validation proves it. How FDA's 30-year IQ/OQ/PQ methodology maps onto modern AI systems.

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