The Compliance Cliff of the EU AI Act

The Compliance Cliff of the EU AI Act

The EU AI Act's high-risk system obligations took effect this month, yet the harmonized standards that grant a presumption of conformity are not finished. This is not a minor administrative delay. It is a structural gap: legal requirements are enforceable, but...

The EU AI Act’s compliance cliff

On August 2, 2026, the European Union's AI Act reached a threshold that its architects likely did not anticipate: the high-risk system obligations became legally enforceable while the technical standards that grant presumption of conformity remained unfinished....

The substrate blind spot

Nine days after the ExploitGym disclosure, SB 315's audit scope remains unchanged. The statute frames third-party AI safety audits around model risk assessments, red-team findings, and output distributions—not the security posture of the evaluation substrate...