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Big Changes Are Coming to AI Regulation in 2026

Ali Farhat on November 10, 2025

2026 won’t just be another year in tech. It’s the year AI transparency becomes law. Europe’s new framework will require every company that builds, ...
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HubSpotTraining

The transparency requirement sounds good in theory, but I can’t see how companies like OpenAI or Anthropic will ever share meaningful data details.

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Ali Farhat

That’s a fair point. The “public summary” rule will likely trigger different interpretations, some may publish structured metadata instead of raw lists. What matters is traceability, not total disclosure.

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Jan

Will non-EU companies really have to comply too?

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Ali Farhat

Yes, if they serve users or deploy models within the EU. It’s similar to GDPR’s extraterritorial scope, the rules follow the market, not the headquarters.

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Jan

Thank you! 🙌

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BBeigth

So if I’m fine-tuning a model on open web text, do I now have to check every source for copyright flags?

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Ali Farhat

In short, yes. From 2026, you’ll need to verify whether that content was legally reusable. Many are building automated crawlers to detect copyright reservations in metadata or robots.txt files.

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BBeigth

Thank you!

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Rolf W

This feels like GDPR all over again, first everyone ignores it, then everyone scrambles to comply in the last six months.

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Ali Farhat

Exactly. The same pattern is repeating. Those who start documenting and auditing early will have the least friction when enforcement begins.