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The Auditor Who Does Not Exist Yet
The European Commission holds formal investigative and enforcement authority over general-purpose AI model providers and over the AI Act's prohibited practices as of 2 August 2026, and the Commission sent its first enforcement information requests to more than 30 AI companies, covering safety and security of general-purpose and frontier models, and copyright and transparency. …
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The Certificate That Does Not Exist Yet
Article 4 AI literacy obligations have applied since 2 February 2025, so every university in the Union employing staff to operate AI systems has been out of compliance for more than seven months, or it has already certified that its people meet a sufficient level of AI literacy for the work they do. The …
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The Bill That Arrives Before the Datacentre Does
Wisconsin ratepayers owe more than $1 billion on power plants that are already shut. We Energies estimated remaining value of over $700 million across three recently retired units as of December 2024, and WEC Energy Group will likely have over $1 billion in recently retired assets by the end of 2026. The meter runs …
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The guidance that does not apply
On 17 April 2026, federal regulators including the Federal Reserve, FDIC, and OCC overhauled existing guidance, replacing SR 11-7 with a framework that demands better model inventory, risk-based validation cadence, and continuous monitoring across the lifecycle. SR 26-2 excludes generative AI and agentic AI from the formal scope because these technologies are novel and …
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