The AI
Regulation Radar
AI is entering the rulebook faster than most firms are tracking it. We read the Federal Register every business day and count how AI is moving through ten US financial regulators, with the 50-state law landscape alongside it.
WorkWise Solutions | Updated … | Source: Federal Register API
Federal counts are computed live from the Federal Register API. A gold marker in the feed flags a document whose title or summary is actually about AI; a grey marker is an incidental mention. 2026 is year-to-date. Figures measure the regulatory record, not binding AI mandates.
Where the activity sits
Documents that mention AI in the last 12 months, by the regulator that issued them. The SEC leads, which is why this matters for private capital: registered advisers answer to it directly.
A document can involve more than one regulator, so the bars are not mutually exclusive and do not sum to the headline total. Counts are trailing 12 months, refreshed each business day from the Federal Register.
Mentions, not mandates (yet)
Most of what shows up is notices and proposals, not final rules. That is the honest read, and it is the opportunity: the rules are being written now, in the open, while comment periods are still live.
Of the AI-mentioning documents in the last year, only a handful were final rules. The rest are the regulator thinking out loud, which is exactly when a firm can shape its position instead of reacting to a finished mandate.
Trailing 12 months, across all ten regulators. Counts every document that mentions AI, including incidental mentions, so this is a generous read of how much is actually binding.
The other front: 50 statehouses
Federal rulemaking is only half the map. The states are moving faster and further, and a portfolio company operating across state lines inherits all of it. This panel is a research anchor, not a live feed: it tracks the NCSL and MultiState legislation databases, which update monthly.
Selected enacted laws
A selection of named, enacted state AI laws, not an exhaustive list. Source: National Conference of State Legislatures AI Legislation Database; MultiState AI tracker, 2026 session. For a definitive bill-by-bill view, the NCSL database is the system of record.
The SEC will “review for accuracy registrant representations regarding their AI capabilities” and “assess whether firms have implemented adequate policies and procedures to monitor and/or supervise their use of AI technologies.”
SEC Division of Examinations, FY2026 Examination Priorities (November 2025)
The regulators on this page are writing the rules your firm and your portfolio companies will be examined against. The activity is still mostly proposals and notices, which is the window to get ahead of it. Once a proposed rule becomes a final rule, the time to shape it has passed.
What we count
We query the official Federal Register API for documents that mention “artificial intelligence” from ten US financial regulators: the SEC, CFTC, OCC, FDIC, Federal Reserve, CFPB, Treasury, FinCEN, FTC, and NCUA. We track year-to-date, trailing-12-month, and annual counts since 2019, refreshed every business day.
The live feed shows the most recent documents, AI-focused items first. Routine self-regulatory and administrative-collection notices that mention AI only in passing are collapsed for readability, so the feed reads as substantive activity rather than boilerplate.
What it does and does not claim
It measures the regulatory record, how often AI appears in federal financial rulemaking, not the number of binding AI-specific rules. A mention can be incidental, and the by-type split is shown precisely so that is clear: most documents are notices and proposals.
The federal data is live. The state landscape is a research anchor sourced from the NCSL and MultiState databases, which update monthly, not daily. It is labelled and dated as such.
Know your regulatory exposure
Reading the radar is the easy part. Translating it into policies your firm can show an examiner, across the federal rules and the states you operate in, is what we do. We help private capital firms put AI governance in place before it is a finding.
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