🔒 AI Act in stages. Deadlines pushed back, but the regulations remain
For months on end, August 2 loomed over companies as a hard deadline: the day after which using AI was set to become much more formalized. The European Union has just let a bit of air out of that balloon, which doesn’t mean it’s pulled the plug on the AI Act.
The EU Council has given final approval to simplifications to the AI Act under the Omnibus VII package. The key change concerns high-risk systems. The new deadlines are December 2, 2027 for stand-alone high-risk systems, and August 2, 2028 for AI systems embedded in regulated products.
That doesn’t mean, though, that the AI Act has been put on hold. The regulation took effect on August 1, 2024, but its most important obligations are being phased in. Some took effect in 2025, some are still scheduled for 2026, and some have just been pushed back.
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