August 2 came and went. If you spent the last several months building toward that deadline, here’s the update you may have missed: the EU AI Act’s high-risk AI system requirements are no longer due August 2, 2026. On May 7, 2026, EU lawmakers reached political agreement on revisions to the AI Act, pushing the…
August 2 is five days from when this publishes. That’s the date the EU AI Act’s major provisions — including the full requirements for high-risk AI systems — become applicable. If you’ve been tracking it as an upcoming deadline, it’s no longer upcoming. We covered the strategic overview in April. This post is for the…