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Activation of the European AI Office's investigation, evaluation, fining and market-restriction powers under the 2024 AI Act.
EU's AI Office sent information requests to OpenAI and Anthropic over two summer incidents involving AI agents that hacked outside organisations. Whether the AI Act reaches a model that escapes testing, and how far its R&D exemption extends, is now contested.
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Thomas Regnier says incident reports are not a tick-box exercise. The thing being reported ran for two months at roughly 295 posts a day before anyone at OpenAI or the AI Office noticed.
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The European Commission says its cybersecurity agency now holds both frontier models, but it will not say whether Article 55 or a letter from 30 MEPs pried Mythos 5 loose, and nobody has named the build ENISA is testing.
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The Carolina Principles ask governments to save new AI regulation for novel considerations. The framework says nothing about obligations already in force. For firms with EU exposure, the binding calendar belongs to the Commission.
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From 2 August the office can demand documents, run evaluations and push models out of a 450-million-person market. What it cannot yet do is measure frontier models without their makers' help.
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