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Short updates on EU technology regulation, linked to the affected provisions and commentary.
The AI Office may now request documentation, order a model's withdrawal and impose fines
Together with the AI Act becoming generally applicable on 2 August 2026, the Commission and the AI Office also gained a set of tools with which to supervise providers of general-purpose AI models. Under Article 91 the Commission may…
ČTÚ recommends assessing the obligations and adopting the measures needed to comply with the AI Act's transparency rules
A few days before Article 50 of the AI Act became applicable, the Czech Telecommunication Office recalls that the obligations fall both on providers, i.e. those who place an AI system on the market or put it into service, and on deployers,…
Around 190 organisations have signed the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content
By the end of July 2026, around 190 organisations from the IT, telecommunications, education and retail sectors had signed the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, including Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic…
EU launches call for up to seven AI gigafactories (up to EUR 30 billion)
On 30 July 2026 the European Union and the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking launched a call for tenders to build up to seven AI gigafactories – large-scale computing facilities for training and fine-tuning advanced AI models, to which start-ups,…
Ireland has established its national AI Office and divided AI supervision among sectoral regulators
On 21 July 2026 the Irish President signed the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Act 2026, which implements the AI Act. On that basis, the AI Office of Ireland (Oifig IS na hÉireann) was established on 30 July 2026 as an independent…
Germany: AI Act implementing law (KI-MIG) promulgated and in force
The law implementing the AI Act, whose Article 1 is the KI-MIG, was signed on 22 July 2026 and promulgated on 28 July 2026 in the Federal Law Gazette (BGBl. I 2026 No. 223); under its Article 5 it enters into force the day after…
Digital Omnibus on AI published in the Official Journal
The AI Act amendment known as the Digital Omnibus on AI was published in the Official Journal of the EU (OJ L 2026/1744 of 24 July 2026) and enters into force on the third day after publication, i.e. 27 July 2026 – the final step after…
Commission approves content of final guidelines on AI transparency (Article 50)
The European Commission approved the content of the final (non-binding) guidelines interpreting the transparency obligations under Article 50 of the AI Act – covering disclosure of interaction with AI (para 1), machine-readable marking of…
Commission orders Google to open search data and Android to rival AI assistants
The European Commission issued two sets of binding specification measures against Google under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). In case DMA.100209 (Article 6(11) DMA), it ordered Google to share anonymised data on queries, rankings, clicks…
Germany: AI Act implementing law (KI-MIG) clears the Bundesrat, oversight goes to the Bundesnetzagentur
The law implementing the AI Act (the Gesetz zur Durchführung der Verordnung über künstliche Intelligenz), whose Article 1 is the KI-Marktüberwachungs-und-Innovationsförderungs-Gesetz (KI-MIG), cleared the Bundesrat at its 1067th sitting on…