Council and Parliament agree changes to EU AI Act
EU institutions agreed to adjust the AI Act by delaying high‑risk obligations, easing compliance for businesses, and strengthening safeguards against harmful AI uses.
EU institutions agreed to adjust the AI Act by delaying high‑risk obligations, easing compliance for businesses, and strengthening safeguards against harmful AI uses.
U talks on reforming the AI Act stalled, putting delayed high‑risk AI compliance at risk and exposing deep divisions over sectoral rules, simplification, and legal certainty for industry.
The European Parliament backs delayed AI Act obligations, fixed application dates, a ban on nudifier apps, and added flexibility for regulated products and growing EU tech companies.
The EU is advancing a Single Entry Point to centralize security incident reporting across GDPR, NIS2, and other regimes, aiming to reduce complexity while keeping existing legal obligations largely unchanged.
MEPs advance AI Act amendments extending high-risk compliance deadlines, tightening deepfake bans, and raising industry concerns over reduced simplification and overlapping EU digital regulation.
Disagreements in the European Parliament over the scope of the digital euro are delaying the file, threatening the Commission’s plan for a usable online and offline form of digital public money.
European Parliament urges an EU-wide under‑16 default ban on social media, targeting addictive design and dark patterns, while pressing to strengthen child protection beyond the DSA.
MEPs urge the Commission to use DSA powers to investigate Shein, AliExpress, Temu, and Wish over child-like sex dolls and consider platform suspension to protect minors and prevent illegal listings.
The study urges an EU-wide strict liability regime for high-risk AI with a single responsible operator to ensure legal certainty, victim compensation, and harmonized rules across Member States.
MEPs urge the European Commission to adopt a strict definition of open source AI in the AI Act, excluding models with restrictive licensing like Meta’s Llama.