AI Act
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The EU Just Rewrote Its AI Law Before It Took Effect. OpenAI Is Cooperating. Anthropic Is Not.
The Digital Omnibus deal pushed high-risk AI compliance to 2027 at 4:30am after talks collapsed twice. OpenAI is offering EU regulators model access. Anthropic is holding off.
The EU Spent Three Years Writing the World's Toughest AI Law. Then It Rewrote It.
The AI Act Omnibus delays most high-risk rules to 2027 and 2028. The Digital Omnibus, the sequel, may gut the data protection framework that makes AI development in Europe structurally different from China and the US.
Europe Blinks on AI
The EU delayed its flagship AI law's core rules by 18 months and exempted industrial AI entirely, handing industry a win critics say undermines the whole point.
Europe Just Blinked on AI Regulation
The EU's landmark AI Act has been watered down, delayed, and rebranded as a competitiveness measure. The question is whether that was the plan all along.
EU AI Talks Collapse at Midnight. August Deadline Is Back.
Twelve hours of Brussels negotiations failed over industrial exemptions, leaving 50,000 European companies without clarity on whether they need to comply in 98 days.
The EU AI Act Open-Source Exemption Exempts Almost Nothing
Full enforcement kicks in August 2, 2026. The April 10 Commission clarification that made headlines as a win for open-source developers leaves copyright policies, training-data summaries, and all frontier models fully in scope.
The Law That Cannot Enforce Itself
The EU AI Act has been in force for two years. Not a single enforcement action has been taken against a deployed high-risk system. The systems it was designed to govern are still expanding.