The Day the AI Act Grew Teeth: GPAI Enforcement Goes Live
The obligations themselves have technically existed since August 2, 2025 — technical documentation, downstream transparency, a copyright policy that honors robots.txt and opt-outs, a public summary of training data — but until now they were rules without a referee. The voluntary Code of Practice buys you a lighter touch, not immunity. Models already on the market before August 2, 2025 get until August 2, 2027 to fall in line.
- ▪The obligations themselves have technically existed since August 2, 2025 — technical documentation, downstream transparency, a copyright policy that honors robots.txt and opt-outs, a public summary of training data — but until now they were
- ▪The voluntary Code of Practice buys you a lighter touch, not immunity.
- ▪Models already on the market before August 2, 2025 get until August 2, 2027 to fall in line.
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| Original publisher | Simonroses |
| Canonical URL | https://simonroses.com/2026/08/the-day-the-ai-act-grew-teeth-gpai-enforcement-goes-live/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:34:51 +0000 |
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Read Time: 13 minutes TL;DR On August 2, 2026, the part of the EU AI Act everyone was quietly ignoring became enforceable: the AI Office can now fine providers of general-purpose AI models up to 3% of global annual turnover or €15 million, whichever is higher, and can demand your technical documentation, run its own evaluations of your model, order you to “take measures,” and in the worst case make you restrict, withdraw, or recall the model from the EU market. The obligations themselves have technically existed since August 2, 2025 — technical documentation, downstream transparency, a copyright policy that honors robots.txt and opt-outs, a public summary of training data — but until now they were rules without a referee. That changed.
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