EU AI Act

7 entries between April 2021 and August 2026, 4 turning points.

Turning points

  1. EU AI Act obligations for general-purpose models take effect

    From 2 August 2025 the EU AI Act required providers of general-purpose AI models newly placed on the market to keep technical documentation, publish a summary of their training data, comply with EU copyright law, and share information with regulators and downstream developers.

  2. The EU AI Act enters into force

    The European Union’s AI Act entered into force on 1 August 2024, twenty days after publication in the Official Journal. The law sorts AI systems into four risk tiers, bans some uses outright, and phases in over two years, with most high-risk rules applying from August 2026.

  3. EU negotiators reach a political deal on the AI Act

    After trilogue talks that ran into the early morning of 9 December 2023, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached provisional political agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act, setting risk tiers for AI systems and separate rules for general-purpose models.

  4. European Commission proposes the EU Artificial Intelligence Act

    The European Commission published its proposal for the Artificial Intelligence Act on 21 April 2021, sorting systems into risk tiers from unacceptable to minimal, setting mandatory duties for high-risk uses and transparency rules for chatbots and deepfake generators.

Every entry

  1. Anthropic explains how Claude’s text watermark works

    Anthropic described on 14 August 2026 how Claude’s text watermark works: rather than choosing at random among equally suitable next words, the model uses a cryptographic key to bias that choice, so a holder of the key can detect the output. No user information is embedded.

  2. EU begins enforcing the AI Act’s transparency rules

    From 2 August 2026 the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities began enforcing the AI Act’s transparency provisions: interactive systems must tell users they are AI, deepfakes must be labeled, and AI-generated content must carry machine-readable marks.

  3. EU Council and Parliament agree to simplify AI Act rules

    The Council of the EU and the European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement on 7 May 2026 to simplify parts of the AI Act, easing reporting duties and compliance timelines as part of the bloc’s wider Digital Omnibus effort.

  4. EU AI Act obligations for general-purpose models take effect

    From 2 August 2025 the EU AI Act required providers of general-purpose AI models newly placed on the market to keep technical documentation, publish a summary of their training data, comply with EU copyright law, and share information with regulators and downstream developers.

  5. The EU AI Act enters into force

    The European Union’s AI Act entered into force on 1 August 2024, twenty days after publication in the Official Journal. The law sorts AI systems into four risk tiers, bans some uses outright, and phases in over two years, with most high-risk rules applying from August 2026.

  6. EU negotiators reach a political deal on the AI Act

    After trilogue talks that ran into the early morning of 9 December 2023, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached provisional political agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act, setting risk tiers for AI systems and separate rules for general-purpose models.

  7. European Commission proposes the EU Artificial Intelligence Act

    The European Commission published its proposal for the Artificial Intelligence Act on 21 April 2021, sorting systems into risk tiers from unacceptable to minimal, setting mandatory duties for high-risk uses and transparency rules for chatbots and deepfake generators.