Artificial IntelligenceMonday, June 29, 2026 7 min read
The EU AI Act's second wave lands — and startups are quietly panicking
New transparency rules for general-purpose models take effect this month. Compliance teams say the paperwork is the easy part.
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By Amina Yusuf
Senior AI Correspondent
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Article 53 obligations kick in this week for any model trained on more than 10^25 FLOPs.
For frontier labs, that means a public training summary. For everyone downstream, it means a very awkward set of questions.
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