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EU (AI Act Article 50)
EU AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations begin to apply

Provenance labeling such as C2PA and SynthID moves from goodwill to a regulatory compliance requirement. Dec 2, 2026 is only a transition deadline for systems already on the market, not a postponement of Article 50 as a

MultimodalGovernment
EU
AI Omnibus Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 enters into force

Moves the high-risk obligations (Annex III) from Aug 2, 2026 to Dec 2, 2027, so citing Aug 2, 2026 for the high-risk obligations is wrong; the Aug 2, 2026 application date of the Article 50 transparency obligations stays

European Commission (EU)
EU publishes guidelines on AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations

Unlike the high-risk obligations, which the Omnibus postponed, the Commission confirms through guidelines that the transparency obligations apply as scheduled

European Commission (EU)
EU opens formal DSA probe into X's Grok, extends 2023 recommender probe

The first case of generative AI being regulated under the DSA rather than the AI Act

European Commission (EU)
European Commission proposes the Digital Omnibus on AI regulation

The start of discussions on postponing and simplifying high-risk obligations

EU
AI Act Chapter III Section 4, Chapters V (GPAI), VII and XII start to apply

GPAI obligations, governance and penalties take effect

European Commission (EU)
EU publishes the General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice

The EU approach of spelling out legal obligations through a voluntary code

EU
AI Act enters into force

Entry into force is not application. Application is phased

Official Journal of the EU
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 published in the Official Journal

The starting point for counting the entry-into-force date

Council of the EU, European Parliament, European Commission
AI Act trilogue reaches political agreement

A date often wrongly cited as the passage of the AI Act

28 countries including the UK, plus the EU
Bletchley Declaration adopted (AI Safety Summit)

The starting point of the line of international AI safety summits, and the source of the mandate for the International AI Safety Report

European Commission (EU)
European Commission publishes AI Act proposal COM(2021) 206

The starting point of the EU's first comprehensive AI regulation