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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 Inventory You Do Not Have When the Auditor Asks for It
From 2 August 2026, the European Commission's AI Office, together with national authorities, began enforcing the Artificial Intelligence Act. Five days later, Henna Virkkunen confirmed the first formal enforcement step: "our AI Office has formally sent requests for information to a number of providers of general-purpose AI models", reportedly including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. …
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