Digital Omnibus

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power 2026-05-10

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.

power 2026-05-01

EU Lawmakers Tried to Delay Their AI Law. They Couldn't Agree How. The Deadline Is Still August 2.

The trilogue that was supposed to give AI companies until 2027 to comply collapsed over machinery regulations. Every high-risk AI system in Europe now has 94 days to meet rules most deployers haven't read.

power 2026-04-18

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.