Crunch time for the AI omnibus in the European Parliament. Progress on AI literacy, sensitive data and enforcement, but legal timelines, a sexual deepfake ban and regulatory privileges are “parked” for political talks. My latest for MLex.
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The Commission has set its 2026 priorities for AI Act's implementing and delegated acts, incl. GPAI enforcement rules & the AI Office’s market surveillance powers. Energy consumption methodology and systemic risk criteria are deprioritized.
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India's AI Impact Summit exposed quiet EU unease over proposed “deliverables,” including a new AI inclusion alliance and AI-for-science network, seen as duplicating UN structures. A compromise avoided a diplomatic rift just after the EU-India trade deal.
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Momentum is building to add a ban on sexualized deep fakes to the EU’s AI Act. After the Grok scandal, EU lawmakers were the first to call for a ban. Now Spain, France, Ireland, and Slovenia are backing a similar move in the Council. But legal limits loom.
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Centralizing AI Act enforcement is emerging as a key fault line in the AI omnibus talks. EU governments are pushing back against expanding the AI Office’s powers, setting up a likely clash with the European Parliament.
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The second Council compromise on the AI omnibus refines the new AI Office's enforcement powers, incl. due process safeguards, introduces an EDPS-led sandbox, reinforces existing AI literacy duties, and sets a deadline for post-market guidance.
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MEPs broadly agree that sexual deepfakes should be tackled in the AI Act omnibus, but they’re split on how. Renew + S&D back a ban limited to non-consensual content. Greens want an outright ban. S&D also proposes duties on GenAI providers.
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Leading MEPs are backing fixed AI Act deadlines, dropping the Commission’s discretion to anticipate high-risk duties. The draft report restores AI literacy duties & tightens sensitive data use, while leaving tougher issues like registration for later.
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EU countries will discuss tomorrow adding two new bans to the AI Act via the omnibus. Draft proposals would prohibit AI systems used to generate non-consensual sexual deepfakes and child sexual abuse material. Support is growing, but questions remain.
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EU countries are pushing to keep the AI Act’s high-risk regime narrow for law enforcement. As the Commission drafts guidance, 23 of 27 member states back a letter warning that a broad interpretation would undermine police capabilities & slow investigations
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India is using its AI Impact Summit this week to propose new governance bodies, which prompted EU concerns of duplication with existing UN structures. After initial unease over implied commitments in ...
A growing group of EU countries including Spain, France, Ireland and Slovenia is backing a ban in the AI Act on generating sexualized deep fakes and non-consensual intimate content, prompted by the Gr...
The European Commission has identified its 2026 priorities for implementing the AI Act, focusing on procedural rules for general-purpose AI models, regulatory sandboxes and the AI Office’s market surv...
Several EU countries are pushing back against the European Commission’s plans to centralize AI Act enforcement in its AI Office, arguing that it would undermine national regulatory powers. Italy, Germ...
EU governments will discuss adding two new bans to the AI Act to prohibit generative AI systems from producing sexual deepfakes and child sexual abuse material. The proposal, debated under the amendme...
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EU lawmakers are making progress on plans for some less controversial amendments to the bloc's AI law, including AI literacy, sensitive data processing and enforcement, while divisive issues such as l...
EU lawmakers are divided on how to regulate sexual deepfakes in amendments to the AI Act. Some centrist and left-wing lawmakers back a ban limited to non-consensual content, while Greens and others se...
Leading European Parliament lawmakers Arba Kokalari and Michael McNamara want fixed deadlines for delayed AI Act high-risk obligations, removing the European Commission’s discretion to advance them. T...
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EU governments have refined the AI Act’s centralized enforcement model in a new redraft of the legislative amendments, consolidating the AI Office’s powers while adding due process guarantees. The tex...
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European governments led by Ireland have called for the European Commission to give specific consideration to law enforcement uses of artificial intelligence such as biometric identification in the EU...
