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ARTICLE · 10 JULY 2025

EU AI Act Facing An Uncertain Future

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The next date in the staggered application timetable of the EU AI Act is coming up at the beginning of August but will it be delayed?

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The next date in the staggered application timetable of the EU AI Act is coming up at the beginning of August but will it be delayed? In this article we summarise recent news on the possibility of a "stop the clock" and our thoughts on what this could mean in practice.

The intended roll-out of the Act

When the EU AI Act came into force last year, it started the clock running on a timetable of key dates on which its provisions would start to apply:

  • 2 February 2025 - obligations in relation to AI literacy and a limited number of prohibited AI use cases;
  • 2 August 2025 - provisions on general purpose AI models (GPAI) and penalties (save for those applicable to providers of GPAI);

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