NY RAISE Act revision lowers frontier compute threshold to 10^25 operations
StephenLCasper · x · 2026-10-31
Reviewing the revised NY RAISE Act (items 2-3), Stephen Casper notes the compute threshold for a "frontier" model drops to 10^25 operations — necessary, he argues, if frontier developers' own trend claims are to be believed — and the bill creates a new state office to issue regulations and orders overseeing the act.
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