EU AI Act deadline
Most of the EU AI Act applies
What changes
General application date, including the Article 50 transparency rules.
Who it touches
Anyone who puts an AI system on the EU market or uses one in the EU, including chatbots and systems that make synthetic content, which now carry transparency duties.
What to do this week
Find out whether the date touches you at all. AI Compliance Radar takes your product's web address and shows which AI rules you are likely to trigger, with a Gap Register you can work down. Then read the primary text for the duties it flags.
Every AI rule deadline coming up, coloured by how close it is, plus the one risk I would fix first.
The other dates
- 2 December 2026: New ban and AI content marking
- 2 August 2027: Older general-purpose AI models
- 2 December 2027: High-risk AI in Annex III areas
- 2 August 2028: High-risk AI inside regulated products
Source: the AI Omnibus, published in the EU Official Journal on 24 July 2026, as summarised by the Future of Privacy Forum. Last checked 9 November 2026. Put the next deadline on your site.