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EU AI Act · 5 August 2026
The policy moved. The archive did not.
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 rewrote the EU AI Act's dates six days before they bit. Two years of published guidance now states the wrong law, none of it has been retracted, and AI tools answer from that archive. The fault is not the model.
Read the analysisEU AI Act · 31 July 2026
The Digital Omnibus deferral: what moved, what did not, and what applies now
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 entered into force on 27 July 2026 and rewrote Article 113 of the EU AI Act six days before the general application date. Most commentary read it as a delay. Half of it was the opposite.
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