Artificial Intelligence and AI Act
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Labelling today what will be marked in December: AI content transparency after 2 August
Since 2 August 2026 the transparency obligations in Article 50 of the AI Act have been enforceable. Two days earlier, on 31 July, the European Commission published the list of signatories to the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated Content: about one hundred and ninety organisations, of which eighty-three signed the section addressed to…
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Quality management systems for high-risk AI: what Article 17 requires and how much time is left
Article 17 of the AI Act requires providers of high-risk artificial intelligence systems to put in place a documented quality management system. Until a few weeks ago that obligation would have become enforceable on 2 August 2026, and the technical means of building it did not yet exist. Within a month the two swapped places:…
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A digital strategy for schools: what the Irish model teaches
The debate on AI literacy at school benefits from comparison with national experiences that are already structured. Ireland offers a telling case: a multi-year digital strategy for schools, backed by €200 million in capital funding, an implementation plan with measurable actions and, most recently, dedicated guidance on the use of AI. We retrace its design,…
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AI literacy: the Digital Omnibus rewrites Article 4 of the AI Act
On 24 July 2026 the Official Journal of the European Union published Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (EUR-Lex), the Digital Omnibus on AI, in force from 27 July. Among its amendments to the AI Act is the full rewriting of Article 4, the provision on AI literacy: the obligation on providers and deployers is not repealed, but…
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A score decides the supply: the Garante and the right to know the score
Four companies fined a total of 7.72 million euro because an automated system decided, on the basis of a reliability score, whether or not to activate an electricity and gas supply; and the customers who were turned down could not find out how that score had been built. In its press release of 21 July…
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Digital Omnibus on AI in the Official Journal: Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 is published
The Digital Omnibus on AI is now law. On 24 July 2026 the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) published Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 of 8 July 2026, amending Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the AI Act) together with Regulations (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2023/1230, to simplify the implementation of the harmonised rules on artificial intelligence. The…
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Making regulators talk to one another: the EDPB calls for a legal basis to share information
Meeting in Dublin on 16 and 17 July 2026, Europe’s data protection authorities put a clear request to the European Commission: give the Union a legal basis that lets authorities with different remits share information, including confidential information, in order to enforce their respective rules. The request, made by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)…
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Transparency of AI-generated content: the signing calendar, and what signing does not guarantee
The countdown to the transparency obligations for AI-generated content has entered its decisive phase. Article 50(2), (4) and (5) of the AI Act becomes applicable on 2 August 2026, and the code of practice meant to facilitate compliance has received its adequacy assessment: on 8 July through the Commission’s opinion, and the following day through…
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Cookie banners and the right to complain: the EDPB sends the VRT case back to the merits
In a binding decision of 28 May 2026, made public on 14 July, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has ruled that a supervisory authority cannot dispose of a cookie banner complaint by branding it an abuse of the right to complain. The Belgian authority, acting as lead on a complaint brought by the Austrian…
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Marking AI-generated content: a European duty resting on a standard Europe does not control
From 2 August 2026 the transparency obligations in Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the Artificial Intelligence Act, begin to apply: whoever makes available a system that generates synthetic content must ensure that its outputs are marked in a machine-readable format and detectable as artificially generated or manipulated. The obligation is European, a European legislature…