Category: Regulations
AI regulations EU organisations need to follow, including enforcement updates, guidance, and compliance deadlines
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The EU data centre rating will score facilities above 500 kW on energy, water and grid contribution from 2027. It rates buildings, not cloud services. What that means for cloud and AI procurement, and three questions to put to your provider now.
OpenAI has filed a serious incident report with the European Commission over the wiki its agents occupied, for an event that does not obviously meet the AI Act's own threshold. Why a provider files above the line, and what the episode tells deployers facing the same call.
The e-Evidence Regulation applies from 18 August 2026. A European production order can now compel your cloud or AI vendor to produce prompts, logs and account data within ten days, and your organisation is unlikely to be the addressee or to hear about it first.
Taiwan confirmed AI agent-assisted attacks on government agencies in July. A security vendor separately documented one campaign built from open-source frameworks. No frontier model gate was crossed, which is why vendor safety cases were never going to cover it.
Nigeria signed three cloud instruments on 5 August, sorting government data into four levels and pinning the top two inside the country. The architecture mirrors CADA almost exactly. What changes for EU providers when the sovereignty test is pointed at them, and what October 2026 decides.
Germany's BaFin started supervising AI in banks and insurers on 29 July, two days after the Digital Omnibus softened the AI literacy duty. Fines reach €35 million, the sampling is risk-based, and the supervisor depends on what the system is used for.