As the EU's Digital Omnibus tries to streamline its acquis, the UK, South Korea, and multiple U.S. states are building distinct sovereign AI and data centre regulatory frameworks, testing which model will set global standards.
Global Tech Policy · EU Regulation
A provisional EU agreement delays high-risk AI compliance to December 2027, bans nudification apps, and leaves the deployer deadline of 2 August 2026 as the immediate challenge.
Policy · EU Tech Regulation
The 8 May provisional agreement resets the EU AI Act implementing-act calendar, pushing high-risk obligations to December 2027 and resolving the machinery-rules overlap, but the August 2026 deployer deadline remains.
Regulation · Policy Export
As Meta fights Ofcom's fee ruling under the Online Safety Act and the FCA rejects strict AI rules, the UK's regulatory divergence offers a non-EU policy template.
Policy · EU Tech Regulation
The EU AI Act's provisional Omnibus agreement on 8 May recalibrates compliance deadlines, yet the Commission's incomplete guidance pipeline may still hinder deployers and SMEs.
Global Tech Policy · Brussels Effect
With the EU AI Act's first enforcement deadline looming and the Omnibus deal scrambling the compliance timeline, the chasm between ambitious rules and actual enforcement capacity is growing fast.
Global Tech Policy · UK-EU Divergence
A High Court challenge by Meta over Ofcom's Online Safety Act fees unfolds as Brussels stalls on the AI Digital Omnibus, spotlighting a real-time test of the Brussels Effect on global policy export.
Policy · EU regulation
On January 8 the European Commission issued a formal data-preservation order to X under Article 60 of the Digital Services Act. The legal mechanism — and what it tells you about the next twelve months of EU enforcement — is the part to read.
Policy · EU regulation
The Act becomes fully applicable on August 2, 2026. The implementing-act drafts circulating in committee this week are the documents that decide what compliance actually means.