Andre Grueter

🚨 BREAKING: With 423 votes in favor, the European Parliament APPROVED the proposed amendments to the AI Act. Summary of the changes: 1. New deadlines - Obligations on high-risk AI systems will apply: > from 2 December 2027 for the high-risk AI systems listed on Annex III; > from 2 August 2028 for AI systems embedded as safety components and covered by EU sectoral legislation on safety and market surveillance (those listed on Annex I). - Obligations on AI-generated content labeling: > from 2 December 2026 2. Ban on nudifier apps - New ban on AI systems that generate child sexual abuse material or create images, videos, and audio depicting an identifiable person’s intimate parts, or sexually explicit activities, without their consent. - The prohibition will apply to providers and deployers and will start applying on 2 December 2026. 3. Additional changes: - Removal of overlapping requirements on AI for machinery products listed on Annex I; - A clearer definition of what qualifies as a “safety component”; - The possibility to process personal data where strictly necessary to detect and correct biases in both high-risk and non-high-risk AI systems (with proper safeguards); - The extension to small mid-cap enterprises (SMCs) of SME exemptions from certain rules; - Streamlined enforcement of certain general-purpose AI systems within the EU AI Office. *A reminder that these amendments still need to be formally adopted by the Council of the EU. - 👉 NEVER MISS my updates: join my newsletter's 96,800+ subscribers (link below)

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