EU AI Act Enters Enforcement As Transparency Rules Take Effect

According to Axios, Europe’s landmark AI Act has moved from concept to enforcement, with a major deadline taking effect Aug. 2 and new transparency and disclosure requirements now in force for chatbots and AI-generated content. The EU AI Office has not yet pursued any covered companies for misconduct, but it can now request information from firms or seek access to models. Anthropic said future Claude models will generate text with a watermark to comply with the law, while Google and Meta said in July they would adopt and develop transparency and watermarking tools. OpenAI said it is publishing training data summaries and embedded provenance signals, and Microsoft said its compliance work includes internal governance and risk management changes. The next phases of the AI Act, including rules for high-risk AI systems used in education, biometrics and migration, are due in December 2027 and August 2028.