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…
The AI governance conversation has been running in the background for most organizations — something to monitor, something to address eventually, something for legal to sort out. That posture has an expiration date, and for many businesses, it’s August 2026. The EU AI Act’s major provisions go fully into effect on August 2, 2026. Organizations…