Practical guidance on EU AI Act compliance for businesses with customer-facing AI systems.
Mostly no, if the system was placed on the market before the high-risk rules start to apply, now 2 December 2027. Article 111 grandfathers existing high-risk systems, but a significant design change pulls one fully into scope, and the bans and transparency rules apply regardless.
Read more →AI text can carry a hidden watermark, and from 2 December 2026 marking generated text is a provider duty under Article 50. How text watermarking works, why very short text is exempt, and what to do when your model provider doesn't do it.
Read more →Article 49 makes providers of high-risk AI register in a public EU database before going to market. Who has to register, what Annex VIII exposes, and the deadline.
Read more →From 8 July, some Claude users face a government ID and selfie check run by Persona. The outrage online treats it as dystopian AI surveillance. Under EU law, it is something narrower, and mostly a GDPR question.
Read more →The Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content has been published. The four-step path for providers ahead of the 2 December 2026 marking deadline, the visible labels deployers need on deep fakes and AI-written text from 2 August 2026, and the free EU icons anyone can use.
Read more →The EU AI Act has two different transparency requirements, and the Digital Omnibus split their deadlines. Chatbot disclosure applies from 2 August 2026, content marking from 2 December 2026, and Article 13 from 2 December 2027. Which one applies to you.
Read more →How a high-risk AI system clears the gate to the EU market. The Article 43 conformity assessment, the Article 47 declaration of conformity, the Article 48 CE marking and how self-assessment works.
Read more →If you ship AI as a product, the Cyber Resilience Act applies too. The good news is much of the AI Act high-risk work carries straight over.
Read more →Article 17 of the EU AI Act makes a documented quality management system a condition of providing a high-risk AI system. What it must cover, how proportionality works, and why it's the file that ties the others together.
Read more →The difference between an AI model and an AI system decides which EU AI Act obligations you carry and which belong to someone else. Article 3 and Recital 97 are where the line falls, and where most companies misread it.
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