ISO/IEC and CEN/CENELEC standards
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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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Digital product passport: the presumption of conformity reaches the infrastructure, not the data
On 15 July 2026 the Official Journal of the European Union published the references of six harmonised standards for the digital product passport, under Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1736, adopted the previous day. From that date, anyone building a passport that conforms to those standards can rely on the presumption of conformity with the requirements…
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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…
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Cyber accountability reaches the board, but the standards to prove it are still out to tender
On 14 July 2026 the Italian National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) updated its FAQs on the obligations of the management bodies of NIS entities, clarifying that the approval of cybersecurity risk management measures cannot be delegated and that responsibility for the way that function is exercised stays with those who sit on the board. The day…
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Agentic AI: technical autonomy does not create legal autonomy
Artificial Intelligence systems no longer merely generate content: they act, they send, they modify, they commit. This is the starting point of “Agentic AI: Technical Autonomy, Human Responsibility, and Legal Governance”, the book by Nicola Fabiano published in July 2026, whose thesis is declared from the opening pages and runs through the entire work: technical…
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AI AnthropoCosmic: the project for an AI at the service of Humanity, the Environment and the Cosmos (and a Call for Paper closing on 15 September)
An artificial intelligence that does not merely compete, but serves. That, in the shortest possible terms, is the proposition behind AI AnthropoCosmic, the international project promoted by the Faculty of Social Communication Sciences of the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome, led by its Dean, Prof. Fabio Pasqualetti, and presented in the press release of 10…
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AI Research Scientist: before the applications comes the research, and Europe must decide whether to keep it
Every Artificial Intelligence application we use today was born, years ago, in a scientific paper. The AI Research Scientist is the profile that generates that knowledge: it formulates theories, conducts reproducible experiments, publishes and submits to peer review. The US repertoires record it precisely; for Europe, which has set itself the target of twenty million…
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AI Machine Learning Engineer: the profile Europe seeks above all others, and the technical debt only it sees
The European analysis of Artificial Intelligence skills needs uses, for one profile alone, the adverb “especially”: the machine learning engineer. This is the figure who turns models into production systems and keeps them alive; the technical literature, from Google to the NeurIPS conference, explains why it is so difficult, and so sought after. If one…
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AI Natural Language Processing Engineer: language has become the interface of AI, and someone is needed who can handle it
Ever since we have been talking to machines, language has become the universal interface of Artificial Intelligence, and those who can build systems that understand and generate language have joined the European list of the most needed profiles. But language carries culture, variety and inequality with it: the craft of the AI Natural Language Processing…
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AI Data Scientist: the Washington figures, the European demand and the method that makes the difference
It is the only Artificial Intelligence craft that US federal statistics record as a standalone occupation: a median pay of 112,590 dollars and a projected growth of thirty-four per cent over the decade. And in Europe? The needs analysis puts it at the top of the most sought-after roles. But behind the most overused title…