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Article 50 of the EU AI Act is one page and seven paragraphs. The Commission’s draft guidelines to implement it — published on 8 May 2026 for stakeholder consultation until 3 June — are forty pages. That gap is the compliance problem in one number. This piece works through what the forty pages actually add,

The question of whether AI agents fall under the EU AI Act has generated more confusion than it deserves. The short answer is yes — in most cases they do, and not because the Act was amended or extended to cover them, but because Article 3 was written broadly enough to capture them from the

Most HR teams are not thinking about the EU AI Act. They should be. The regulation does not require a company to build AI. It does not require a dedicated AI department. It does not distinguish between a company that develops its own algorithms and one that subscribes to an off-the-shelf ATS. What it requires

The EU AI Act’s core obligations fall on all businesses from August 2, 2026. But the cost picture for SMEs varies so dramatically — from near-zero to over €600,000 — that framing this as a single compliance challenge fundamentally misrepresents the situation. Your actual exposure depends almost entirely on one variable you can determine right

Article 14 of the EU AI Act requires that high-risk AI systems be designed so that humans can effectively oversee them. The obligation sits with deployers: assign a capable person, ensure they understand the system’s capabilities and limitations, make certain they can intervene when necessary. On paper, the oversight loop is closed. In practice, it