Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What actually lands on an engineer's desk The EU AI Act is effective from 2 August 2026, except for the specific provisions listed in Article 113. For a working engineering team, that sentence resolves into three things arriving at once: the transparency obligations under Article 50, enforcement powers over general-purpose AI models, and the full penalty regime. The heavier obligations attached to high-risk systems were pushed back to 2 December 2027 and 2 August 2028, which is why a lot of teams read the headlines about delay and concluded, incorrectly, that nothing is due for another eighteen months. Transparency is not one of the delayed pieces. The AI Omnibus Regulation is what moved those dates. Its final text entered into force in July 2026, following political agreement reached on…
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