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AI regulation

In one viewGovernments started writing laws about what AI may and may not do and who answers for mistakes. It is both a brake on the industry and the condition for market access.

AI governance moved from declarations into operating mode: requirements, audits, reporting, fines. Deadlines and boundaries keep shifting.

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Events in dossier7
Development chronology

Researched

2026-06-02

US order on frontier-model security

About this eventThe government established a voluntary secure early-access framework and classified evaluation of advanced models' cyber capabilities.

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Source: The White House

In progress

сейчас

Chips as foreign policy

About this eventAccess to advanced accelerators remains an export-control instrument: the geography of compute is not set by the market.

Planned

2026-08-02

AI Act: the next deadline

About this eventThe next group of rules applies from 2 August 2026, while specific high-risk-system duties follow their own transition schedule.

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The AI Act enters into application in stages, so one date does not activate every obligation at once. The important shift is from voluntary principles to legal requirements for documentation, transparency, risk assessment and oversight; each system category must be checked against the Commission's current timeline.

Source: European Commission
2026-12-02

Labelling for pre-existing systems

About this eventThe limited grace period for machine marking and detection of synthetic content ends for systems released before 2 August 2026.

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Source: European Commission
2027-12-02

Annex III rules

About this eventRequirements for stand-alone high-risk systems in employment, biometrics, justice and border control apply no later than this date.

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Source: European Commission
в планах

Capacity to evaluate

About this eventEurope plans its own pre-market model evaluation capacity, expected to be operational around 2027.

Distant horizons

впереди

An international regime

About this eventThe equivalent of non-proliferation treaties for systems above a capability threshold. Neither a body nor a verification mechanism exists.

Sources and research

Primary material behind this dossier: papers, lab publications and official reports.

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