Topic: compliance deadlines
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EU Approves Nude App Ban, Delays AI Act
The European Parliament has voted to delay key enforcement deadlines for the EU AI Act, pushing the compliance date for high-risk AI systems to December 2027 and for systems under existing sectoral rules to August 2028. It has also endorsed a new ban on applications that create non-consensual AI-...
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ByteDance and Alibaba end custom AI companions under new China rules
ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen are shutting down their custom AI companion features ahead of new Chinese regulations taking effect on 15 July that target humanlike AI services simulating human personalities, emotions, or relationships. The new guidelines require companies to prevent AI int...
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EU and Parliament stall on AI Act, deal pushed to next month
EU member states and the European Parliament failed to reach a breakthrough on the AI Act amendments after 12 hours of negotiations, pushing a final agreement to next month due to a fundamental rift over whether high-risk AI systems in everyday products should be exempt from strict rules. The cor...
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EU Set to Rule Google Favored Own Search Services
The European Commission is expected to rule next week that Google violated the Digital Markets Act by giving its own shopping, travel, and other vertical search services preferential placement over rivals in search results, potentially imposing fines in the hundreds of millions of euros. This dec...
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Apple Opens Brazil to Third-Party App Stores
Apple will allow third-party app stores and external payment systems on iPhones in Brazil starting next year, following a legal settlement with the country's antitrust authority. The company must implement these changes within 105 days or face significant fines, and any user warnings about third-...
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Claude adds invisible watermarks to AI text and images
Anthropic will embed machine-readable watermarks and C2PA provenance metadata into Claude-generated text and images, aiming to meet EU AI Act transparency requirements while remaining invisible to users. The rollout is forward-looking: upcoming Claude models will include these markers from launch...
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CISA Mandates Federal Agencies Replace Outdated Edge Devices
The U.S. CISA has issued a binding directive (BOD 26-02) requiring federal agencies to identify and replace outdated, unsupported networking edge devices, which are prime targets for cyberattacks. Agencies must follow a strict timeline, including creating an inventory within three months, replaci...
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Anthropic’s Claude Watermark: A New Text-Marking Method
Anthropic's newly announced text watermarking technology matches several academic research papers, with clues from its official announcement (six specific qualities) and transparency page update on July 23rd pointing to a university-developed method. MCmark, an unbiased watermarking approach, is ...
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