EU AI Act enters into force
Confirmed
Importance: historic (5 of 5)The takeaway
The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), the world’s first comprehensive AI law, entered into force on 1 August 2024 with obligations phased in over 2025–2027 under a risk-based approach.
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- High confidence
- Importance
- Historic (5 of 5)
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 AstraIn its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5In its training data
- Gemini 4 HydrogenIn its training data
- Grok 4.7In its training data
It happened before the cutoffs of all four assistants, so it can be in their training data.
Key facts
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689; European Parliament approved it on 13 March 2024
- Published in the Official Journal on 12 July 2024; in force 1 August 2024
- Prohibited practices apply from 2 February 2025
- General-purpose AI model obligations apply from 2 August 2025 (GPAI Code of Practice published July 2025)
- Most high-risk obligations scheduled from 2 August 2026
What happened
After three years of negotiation, the EU’s AI Act became law, classifying AI systems by risk and imposing duties on providers of general-purpose AI models.
Why it matters
The first binding horizontal AI regulation by a major jurisdiction, with extraterritorial effect on all labs serving the EU market.
Sources
3 sources from 3 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
3 sources: 2 primary, 1 reaction
Primary
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (EUR-Lex)eur-lex.europa.eu, official
- AI Act (European Commission)digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu, official
Reactions
- Wikipedia: Artificial Intelligence Acten.wikipedia.org, discussion
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