The EU AI Act Newsletter #110: Powers in Practice

From first requests for information to crisis preparedness and ChatGPT's designation under the Digital Services Act.

Welcome to the EU AI Act Newsletter, a brief biweekly newsletter by the Future of Life Institute providing you with up-to-date developments and analyses of the EU artificial intelligence law.

Legislative Process

EU orders leading AI labs to detail security practices: Maximilian Henning from Euractiv reports that the European Commission has made first use of its new AI Act enforcement powers, requesting information from leading developers on cybersecurity, safety and copyright compliance. This follows a string of high-profile cybersecurity incidents at several leading AI labs just weeks ago. Tech Commissioner Henna Virkkunen told Euractiv that some providers of the “most advanced” models had received requests, without naming them, adding that others were left out because the Commission has “already had very close dialogue” with them. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta and Mistral did not immediately respond to Euractiv questions. According to Virkkunen, the Commission wants to know how labs prevent humans or AI from stealing their models, how much access they give external evaluators, and how usage is monitored once a model is public. Separately, more than 30 companies that had not published [...]

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Outline:

(00:36) Legislative Process

(01:53) Analyses

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First published:
September 8th, 2026

Source:
https://artificialintelligenceact.substack.com/p/the-eu-ai-act-newsletter-110-powers

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