The EU AI Act Just Moved. Your 2027 Budget Did Not.
The EU AI Act changed on 27 July 2026. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 is now in force, and almost every summary of it used the same word: delay.
One part of the AI Act moved and one part did not, and the difference is where the risk now sits. The high-risk obligations covering AI used in recruitment, performance management, credit scoring and education have shifted to December 2027 for Annex III systems and August 2028 for AI embedded in regulated products. The transparency obligations, the rules requiring people to be told when they are dealing with a machine, still arrive on 2 August 2026. The…
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