The EU AI Act Newsletter #109: The Watermarking Era

Anthropic sets out how it will mark Claude's text as the new transparency obligations take effect, while experts reject claims that watermarking degrades AI writing.

Legislative Process

Fourth GPAI Signatory Taskforce meeting: The European Commission's AI Office reports on the Taskforce's 17 July 2026 session, which covered the Safety and Security and Copyright chapters of the GPAI Code of Practice. On the former, the Office explained how analysing model usage can form part of post-market monitoring under Measure 3.5, since information about how a model is used, and its behaviour during usage, complements pre-deployment evaluations and informs several stages of systemic risk assessment. Participants also discussed ‘marginal-risk’ clauses, which indicate that, should competitors begin pushing the frontiers of capabilities by deploying unsafe models, a provider could consider doing likewise. The Office highlighted that such clauses could be invoked only in exceptional circumstances and under appropriate evidentiary and procedural safeguards. Turning to copyright, Measure 1.3(4) commits signatories to publishing information that enables affected rightsholders to learn which web crawlers are used and their robots.txt features, and to notifying them automatically of updates.

How are AI agents addressed within the AI Act? The Commission's AI Act Service Desk sets out [...]

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Outline:

(00:38) Legislative Process

(03:07) Analyses

(08:40) Discussion about this post

(08:44) Ready for more?

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First published:
August 24th, 2026

Source:
https://artificialintelligenceact.substack.com/p/the-eu-ai-act-newsletter-109-the

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