{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-08-01-eu-ai-act/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-08-01-eu-ai-act/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2024-08-01-eu-ai-act","date":"2024-08-01","date_precision":"day","short_title":"EU AI Act enters into force","deck":null,"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.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":5,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (EUR-Lex)","url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"eur-lex.europa.eu"},{"n":2,"title":"AI Act (European Commission)","url":"https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory-framework-ai","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu"},{"n":3,"title":"Wikipedia: Artificial Intelligence Act","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_Act","type":"discussion","group":"reactions","domain":"en.wikipedia.org"}],"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["European Union"],"title":"EU AI Act enters into force","summary":"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.","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"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["policy","regulation","eu"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nAfter 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.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nThe first binding horizontal AI regulation by a major jurisdiction, with extraterritorial effect on all labs serving the EU market.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2023-11-01-bletchley-ai-safety-summit","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-11-01-bletchley-ai-safety-summit/","date":"2023-11-01","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit and the Bletchley Declaration","deck":null,"takeaway":"First intergovernmental agreement on frontier AI risk, and it created the network of national AI safety institutes.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":2,"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["UK Government"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":"https://postcutoff.com/s/eu-ai-act-enters"}