What the Radar does
The product combines two maintained research views. The global radar covers 27 national, federal, and regional jurisdictions. The US state radar shows all 50 states and tracks AI and data-center measures in 46 of them. Both use a shared policy taxonomy and link each item to an official primary source.
The Radar is for researchers, journalists, founders, investors, policy teams, and anyone trying to understand where AI policy is moving. Ask Nomos is the public chat tool for lightweight research and comparison.
AI Policy Radar and RegLayer
AI Policy Radar is the free public research product. It can be browsed or questioned directly through Ask Nomos. RegLayer is the business product for company-specific regulatory research, monitoring, tasks, reports, and a private workspace. Using Ask Nomos does not require a RegLayer account.
Who is behind it
The project is built and maintained by Stephan Rihs. The work combines automated source collection and classification with legal and policy review.
How the Radar is assembled.
The research pipeline is designed for breadth, traceability, and visible uncertainty. It does not treat every policy signal as law, and it does not replace a verified record with an unresolved result.
Collect
Fetch legislative and regulatory records from official sources and established legislative data providers.
Classify
Apply a written relevance standard and shared taxonomy across jurisdictions and policy categories.
Explain
Generate English titles, summaries, and why-it-matters notes from the source record.
Verify
Retain official primary-source links, date the release, and separate verified updates from unresolved source pages.
Publish
Compile the catalogue into static interactive radars that remain usable without a login.
Release
Publish versioned data notes so coverage changes and corrections can be inspected later.
Global coverage
The global radar covers 27 jurisdictions using the official legislative or regulatory sources appropriate to each system. It includes bills, adopted regulations, government initiatives, and other relevant policy measures with 2026 activity. The interface labels stages and measure types because a proposal, an adopted rule, and a government program have different legal significance.
US state coverage
The state radar sweeps all 50 states for AI and data-center policy. The current catalogue contains 1,202 records across 46 states. The August 27 release matched all 63 tracked California measures against California Legislative Counsel's official nightly files through August 26. Twenty-two records changed after the August 20 cutoff: seven changed stage, fifteen received a new action, and one became law.
Machine assistance
Models help determine relevance, assign categories, translate source material, and draft summaries. Code enforces the shared schema and renders the interface. Human review focuses on source quality, legal stage, date conflicts, and high-value or anomalous items. Machine assistance improves scale. It does not make the output authoritative.
Limitations
Legislative sites are inconsistent. Some block automation, render dynamically, or change markup without warning. A release may therefore preserve an older verified record rather than overwrite it with an unverified result. Dates and status labels should always be checked against the official source before reliance.
Current release
Version 2026-08-27.1 contains 536 global records and 1,202 US state bills, for 1,738 catalogue records in total. The 27 maintained global jurisdictions, including US federal sources, are current through August 21. US state records are current through August 26, with California verified against the official nightly legislative files. See the data release notes for refresh details.