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Welcome to "The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act" podcast, your go-to source for in-depth insights into the groundbreaking AI regulations shaping the future of technology within the EU. Join us as we explore the intricacies of the AI Act, its impact on various industries, and the legal frameworks established to ensure ethical AI development and deployment. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, legal professional, or business leader, this podcast provides valuable information and analysis to keep you informed and compliant with the latest AI regulations. Stay ahead of the curve with "The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act" podcast – where we decode the EU's AI policies and their global implications. Subscribe now and never miss an episode! Keywords: European Union, Artificial Intelligence Act, AI regulations, EU AI policy, AI compliance, AI risk management, technology law, AI ethics, AI governance, AI podcast.

  1. 2D AGO

    EU's AI Act Sprint: Grace Periods and Loopholes as August Deadline Looms

    Imagine this: it's late February 2026, and I'm hunched over my desk in Berlin, the glow of my triple-monitor setup casting shadows on stacks of legal briefs. The EU AI Act, that monumental Regulation 2024/1689 adopted back in June 2024 by the European Parliament and Council, is barreling toward its full enforcement on August 2nd, just months away. As a tech policy analyst who's tracked this beast from its cradle, I can't shake the electric tension in the air—excitement laced with dread. Just this week, Euractiv dropped a bombshell: the European Commission has delayed high-risk AI guidelines yet again, missing the February 2nd target and pushing back what was already a revised timeline. Member states like those in the CADE project warn that several haven't even named their national supervisory authorities. It's chaos in the implementation sprint, listeners, with CEN-CENELEC scrambling to finalize standards by late 2026 for that presumption of conformity. Enter the AI Omnibus proposal from the Commission in November 2025, as Pinsent Masons reports—a frantic bid to lighten the load before August. They're floating grace periods: six months extra for retrofitting transparency in generative AI already out there, up to February 2027. Small and mid-cap firms get concessions on registration if self-assessments show low real-world risk. AI literacy? Shifted from companies to the Commission and states. And get this: EU-level regulatory sandboxes for SMEs, expanding those national testing grounds to fend off fragmentation. But peel back the layers, and it's thought-provoking unease. AGPLaw outlines the risk tiers crystal clear—banned manipulative systems exploiting vulnerabilities, high-risk mandates for healthcare, law enforcement, education under Annex III, like critical infrastructure management or biometric categorization inferring sensitive traits. Providers must nail risk management, data governance, technical docs. Reed Smith clocks it alongside the Cyber Resilience Act in September and Data Act in the same breath. Yet Cambridge Analytica's ghost haunts us, per their deep dive. The Act bans overt political profiling but greenlights behavioral inference in "low-risk" realms—marketing, ads, content recs. Think OCEAN personality models from Facebook likes, now powering Meta's $500 billion ad empire or Pymetrics' hiring games. It's surveillance capitalism rebranded as personalization: lenders profiling from app data, recommenders exploiting psych vulnerabilities. High-risk gets oversight; commerce gets a wink. Does this prevent another CA? No—it segments the infrastructure, preserving profitability while democracies breathe easier. As August looms, businesses in Brussels boardrooms and Canadian SMEs eyeing EU clients via Onley Law are stress-testing compliance. The Act's extraterritorial bite means global ripple. Will it foster ethical innovation or stifle it with bureaucracy? One thing's sure: AI's genie's out, and Europe's rewriting the bottle. Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more deep dives. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai. Some great Deals https://amzn.to/49SJ3Qs For more check out http://www.quietplease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  2. 4D AGO

    EU AI Act 2026: Europe's High-Stakes Reckoning With Regulated Intelligence

    Imagine this: it's February 26, 2026, and I'm huddled in my Berlin apartment, staring at my laptop as the EU AI Act's gears grind louder than ever. The Act, formally adopted by the European Council on May 21, 2024, and entering force last August, isn't some distant dream anymore—it's reshaping how we code, deploy, and dream with artificial intelligence right here in the heart of Europe. Just days ago, on February 24, Crowell & Moring's client alert hit my feed, spotlighting 2026 as the reckoning for HR teams across the continent. High-risk AI systems—like those automating candidate selection at firms in Brussels or performance evals in Paris—are now demanding mandatory human oversight, transparency blasts to employee reps, and rigorous risk assessments. Picture this: your AI predicts turnover at a Munich startup, but under the Act, it needs trained overseers ready to override, or face fines up to 7% of global turnover. The Digital Omnibus package, unveiled by the European Commission on November 19, 2025, offers a lifeline—pushing some deadlines to December 2027 if harmonized standards lag, but companies like those in Belgium, bound by Collective Bargaining Agreement No. 39, can't wait; they must consult works councils now. Euractiv broke the news last week: the Commission delayed high-risk AI guidance again, originally due February 2, missing the mark to sift stakeholder feedback. High-risk means stricter rules for everything from education tools in Amsterdam schools to recruitment bots at OpenAI deployers in Dublin. Meanwhile, Future Prep warns that EU AI governance flips to execution mode this year—boards in London-adjacent firms scrambling for evidence-backed controls and risk classifications. But here's the intellectual gut-punch: as the Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI, Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law gains traction—endorsed in recent European Parliament reports by co-rapporteurs—the Act bridges to global baselines. It bans manipulative AI, emotion recognition in workplaces, and social scoring, echoing prohibitions that tech giants like OpenAI have griped slow innovation. Silicon Canals reported back in February 2025 that startups weren't ready for the first enforcement wave; now, with phased rollouts hitting August 2026, the scramble intensifies. Copyright shadows loom too—Axel Voss's February 25 European Parliament report on generative AI demands licensing clarity under the CDSM Directive, barring non-compliant GenAI from EU markets to protect creators in Rome's studios. This isn't just red tape; it's a philosophical pivot. Does mandating FRIA—Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments—for public AI deployments foster trustworthy tech, or stifle the agentic AI revolution? As an engineer tweaking models in my flat, I wonder: will Europe's human-centric firewall export to Brazil or U.S. states like California, or fracture into a patchwork? The Act forces us to code with conscience, blending robustness, cybersecurity, and post-market monitoring. Yet delays signal the tension—innovation versus safety—in our silicon rush. Listeners, the EU AI Act isn't regulating AI; it's redefining our digital soul. Thank you for tuning in—subscribe for more deep dives. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai. Some great Deals https://amzn.to/49SJ3Qs For more check out http://www.quietplease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  3. FEB 23

    Europe's AI Reckoning: Six Months to Compliance as Brussels Tightens the Screws

    Imagine this: it's February 23, 2026, and I'm huddled in a Brussels café, steam rising from my espresso as I scroll through the latest dispatches on the EU AI Act. The regulation, formally Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, kicked off on August 2, 2024, but now, with high-risk obligations looming just six months away on August 2, 2026, the tension is electric. Prohibited practices like real-time facial recognition in public spaces have been banned since February 2025, and general-purpose AI models faced their transparency mandates last August. Yet, as Hamza Jadoon warned in his February 19 analysis, non-compliance could slap businesses with fines up to 35 million euros or 7% of global turnover—existential stakes for any tech outfit deploying AI in hiring, lending, or healthcare. Across town at the European Parliament, co-rapporteurs are pushing to ratify the Council of Europe's Framework Convention on AI, Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law. This binding treaty, born from talks starting in 2019, dovetails perfectly with the AI Act's risk-based framework, mandating Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments for high-risk public deployments. It insists on iterative risk management, human oversight—even for emerging agentic AIs—and the right to know when you're chatting with a bot. The Parliament's A10-0007/2026 report hails it as Europe's chance to export trustworthy AI, countering hybrid threats and power concentration while nurturing innovation in creative sectors hammered by generative AI. But here's the rub: the proposed AI Omnibus, floated by the European Commission in November 2025, signals a pivot from rigid rules to pragmatic deployment. According to 150sec's coverage, it delays high-risk deadlines by up to 18 months because technical standards lag—think incomplete guidelines on robustness and cybersecurity. Real Instituto Elcano critiques this as carving enforcement gaps, potentially letting malicious AI slip through, like persuasive systems fueling disinformation. Meanwhile, the Commission's first draft Code of Practice on AI transparency, per Kirkland & Ellis, maps "high-level" rules for watermarking AI-generated content by August 2026, with a final version eyed for June. Even copyright's in the fray. The European Parliament's January 2026 compromise amendments demand licensing regimes for GenAI training on protected works, threatening to bar non-compliant providers from the EU market. French President Emmanuel Macron echoed this resolve at India's AI Summit last week, vowing Europe as a "safe space" for innovation while prohibiting unacceptable risks. Listeners, as August 2026 barrels toward us, the AI Act isn't just law—it's a litmus test. Will it harmonize rights and tech, or fracture under delays? Businesses, dust off that 180-day compliance playbook: inventory systems, classify risks, bake in human oversight. Europe leads, but the world watches—will we build AI that amplifies humanity, or amplifies peril? Thank you for tuning in, and please subscribe for more. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai. Some great Deals https://amzn.to/49SJ3Qs For more check out http://www.quietplease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  4. FEB 21

    EU AI Act Enforcement Looms: August 2026 Deadline Forces Global Compliance Reckoning

    Imagine this: it's February 21, 2026, and I'm huddled in my Berlin apartment, laptop glowing as the latest EU AI Act ripples hit my feed. Just ten days ago, on February 11, the European Commission dropped a bombshell report—leaked to MLex—outlining 2026 implementation priorities. High-stakes stuff for general-purpose AI models and high-risk systems like those powering hiring algorithms or medical diagnostics. They're fast-tracking transparency rules for GPAI while sidelining politically thorny measures, like full-blown cybersecurity mandates. Providers, wake up: August 2026 is when the hammer drops, with full enforceability kicking in. But here's the techie twist that's keeping me up at night—the Commission's already missed a key deadline on Article 6 guidance, that crucial clause classifying high-risk AI. Simmons & Simmons reports it was due early February, yet we're staring down a potential March or April release, tangled in the proposed Digital Omnibus package. This could delay high-risk obligations by up to 18 months, sparking fury from rights groups and uncertainty for innovators. Picture Italy, leading the charge: their Artificial Intelligence Act, Law No. 132, effective since October 2025, now mandates oversight committees in the Ministry of Labour for workplace AI. Fines up to €1,500 per employee for non-compliance? That's no sandbox—it's a compliance gauntlet for recruiters using biased CV scanners. Across the Channel, Ireland's gearing up with the General Scheme of the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026, birthing Oifig IS na hÉireann, a national AI office to wrangle enforcement. And don't get me started on the Council of Europe's Framework Convention on AI, Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law—ratified amid trilogues, it anchors the AI Act globally, demanding lifecycle safeguards from Brussels to beyond. Letslaw nails it: we're in a 2025-2026 transition, where providers must prove continuous risk management, Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments, and GDPR sync before market entry. This isn't just red tape; it's a paradigm shift. Agentic AI—those autonomous agents—loom large, demanding human oversight to avert hybrid threats or electoral meddling. Financial firms, per Fenergo's Mark Kettles, face explainability mandates: audit your black-box models now, or face penalties. Luxembourg's CNPD pushes Europrivacy certifications, blending AI Act with data strategy for trust anchors. Yet, Real Instituto Elcano warns of gaps—the Digital Omnibus might dilute malicious AI protections, undermining the Act's extraterritorial punch. Listeners, as we hurtle toward scalable AI, ponder this: will Europe's risk-based rigor foster innovation or stifle it? The EU's betting on trustworthy tech, but delays breed chaos. Proactive governance isn't optional—it's the new OS for AI survival. Thank you for tuning in, and please subscribe for more deep dives. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai. Some great Deals https://amzn.to/49SJ3Qs For more check out http://www.quietplease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  5. FEB 19

    EU AI Act: A Tectonic Shift Shaping Europe's AI Landscape

    Imagine this: it's February 19, 2026, and I'm huddled in my Berlin startup office, staring at my laptop as the EU AI Act's shadow looms larger than ever. Prohibited practices kicked in last year on February 2, 2025, banning manipulative subliminal techniques and exploitative social scoring systems outright, as outlined by the European Commission. But now, with August 2, 2026, just months away, high-risk AI systems—like those in hiring at companies such as Siemens or credit scoring at Deutsche Bank—face full obligations: risk management frameworks, ironclad data governance, CE marking, and EU database registration. I remember the buzz last week when LegalNodes dropped their updated compliance guide, warning that obligations hit all high-risk operators even for pre-2026 deployments. Fines? Up to 35 million euros or 7% of global turnover—steeper than GDPR—enforced by national authorities or the European Commission. Italy's Law No. 132/2025, effective October 2025, amps it up with criminal penalties for deepfake dissemination, up to five years in prison. As a deployer of our emotion recognition tool for HR, we're scrambling: must log events automatically, ensure human oversight, and label AI interactions transparently per Article 50. Then came the bombshell from Nemko Digital last Tuesday: the European Commission missed its February 2 deadline for Article 6 guidance on classifying high-risk systems. CEN and CENELEC standards are delayed to late 2026, leaving us without harmonized benchmarks for conformity assessments. Perta Partners' timeline confirms GPAI models—like those powering ChatGPT—had to comply by August 2, 2025, with systemic risk evals for behemoths over 10^25 FLOPs. VerifyWise calls it a "cascading series," urging AI literacy training we rolled out in January. This isn't just red tape; it's a tectonic shift. Europe's risk-based model—prohibited, high-risk, limited, minimal—prioritizes rights over unchecked innovation. Deepfakes must be machine-readable, biometric categorization disclosed. Yet delays breed uncertainty: will the proposed Digital Omnibus push high-risk deadlines 16 months? As EDPS Wojciech Wiewiórowski blogged on February 18, implementation stumbles risk eroding trust. For innovators like me, it's a call to build resilient governance now—data lineage, audits, ISO 27001 alignment—turning constraint into edge against US laissez-faire. Listeners, the Act forces us to ask: Is AI a tool or tyrant? Will it stifle Europe's 11.75% text-mining adoption or forge trustworthy tech leadership? Proactive compliance isn't optional; it's survival. Thank you for tuning in, and please subscribe for more. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai. Some great Deals https://amzn.to/49SJ3Qs For more check out http://www.quietplease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

    4 min

  6. FEB 16

    EU AI Act Deadline Looms: Startups Scramble to Comply

    Imagine this: it's February 16, 2026, and I'm huddled in my Berlin startup office, staring at my laptop screen as the EU AI Act's countdown clock ticks mercilessly toward August 2. Prohibited practices like manipulative subliminal AI cues and workplace emotion recognition have been banned since February 2025, per the European Commission's phased rollout, but now high-risk systems—think my AI hiring tool that screens resumes for fundamental rights impacts—are staring down full enforcement in five months. LegalNodes reports that providers like me must lock in risk management systems, data governance, technical documentation, human oversight, and CE marking by then, or face fines up to 35 million euros or 7% of global turnover. Just last week, Germany's Bundestag greenlit the Act's national implementation, as Computerworld detailed, sparking a frenzy among tech firms. ZVEI's CEO, Philipp Bäumchen, warned of the August 2026 deadline's chaos without harmonized standards, urging a 24-month delay to avoid AI feature cancellations. Yet, the European AI Office pushes forward, coordinating with national authorities for market surveillance. Pertama Partners' compliance guide echoes this: general-purpose AI models, like those powering my chatbots, faced obligations last August, demanding transparency labels for deepfakes and user notifications. Flash to yesterday's headlines—the European Commission's late 2025 Digital Omnibus proposal floats delaying Annex III high-risk rules to December 2027, SecurePrivacy.ai notes, injecting uncertainty. But enterprises can't bank on it; OneTrust predicts 2026 enforcement will hammer prohibited and high-risk violations hardest. My team's scrambling: inventorying AI in customer experience platforms, per AdviseCX, ensuring biometric fraud detection isn't real-time public surveillance, banned except for terror threats. Compliance & Risks stresses classification—minimal risk spam filters skate free, but my credit-scoring algo? High-risk, needing EU database registration. This Act isn't just red tape; it's a paradigm shift. It forces us to bake ethics into code, aligning with GDPR while shielding rights in education, finance, even drug discovery where Drug Target Review flags 2026 compliance for AI models. Thought-provoking, right? Will it stifle innovation or safeguard dignity? As my CEO quips, we're building not just products, but accountable intelligence. Listeners, thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more tech deep dives. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai. Some great Deals https://amzn.to/49SJ3Qs For more check out http://www.quietplease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  7. FEB 14

    EU AI Act Deadline Looms: Tech Lead Navigates Compliance Challenges

    Imagine this: it's early 2026, and I'm huddled in my Berlin apartment, staring at my laptop screen as the EU AI Act's deadlines loom like a digital storm cloud. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, that beast of a law that kicked off on August 1, 2024, has already banned the scariest stuff—think manipulative subliminal AI tricks distorting your behavior, government social scoring straight out of a dystopian novel, or real-time biometric ID in public spaces unless it's chasing terrorists or missing kids. Those prohibitions hit February 2, 2025, and according to Secure Privacy's compliance guide, any company still fiddling with emotion recognition in offices or schools is playing with fire, facing fines up to 35 million euros or 7% of global turnover. But here's where it gets real for me, a tech lead at a mid-sized fintech in Frankfurt. My team's AI screens credit apps and flags fraud—classic high-risk systems under Annex III. Come August 2, 2026, just months away now, we can't just deploy anymore. Pertama Partners lays it out: we need ironclad risk management lifecycles, pristine data governance to nix biases, technical docs proving our logs capture every decision, human overrides baked in, and cybersecurity that laughs at adversarial attacks. And that's not all—transparency means telling users upfront they're dealing with AI, way beyond GDPR's automated decision tweaks. Lately, whispers from the European Commission about a Digital Omnibus package could push high-risk deadlines to December 2027, as Vixio reports, buying time while they hash out guidelines on Article 6 classifications. But CompliQuest warns against banking on it—smart firms like mine are inventorying every AI tool now, piloting conformity assessments in regulatory sandboxes in places like Amsterdam or Paris. The European AI Office is gearing up in Brussels, coordinating with national authorities, and even general-purpose models like the LLMs we fine-tune face August 2025 obligations: detailed training data summaries and copyright policies. This Act isn't stifling innovation; it's forcing accountability. Take customer experience platforms—AdviseCX notes how virtual agents in EU markets must disclose their AI nature, impacting even US firms serving Europeans. Yet, as I audit our systems, I wonder: will this risk pyramid—unacceptable at the top, minimal at the bottom—level the field or just empower Big Tech with their compliance armies? Startups scramble for AI literacy training, mandatory since 2025 per the Act, while giants like those probed over Grok face retention orders until full enforcement. Philosophically, it's thought-provoking: AI as a product safety regime, mirroring CE marks but for algorithms shaping jobs, loans, justice. In my late-night code reviews, I ponder the ripple—global standards chasing the EU's lead, harmonized rules trickling from EDPB-EDPS opinions. By 2027, even AI in medical devices complies. We're not just coding; we're architecting trust in a world where silicon decisions sway human fates. Thanks for tuning in, listeners—subscribe for more deep dives. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai. Some great Deals https://amzn.to/49SJ3Qs For more check out http://www.quietplease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  8. FEB 12

    "Countdown to the EU AI Act: Compliance Chaos Sweeps Across Europe"

    Imagine this: it's early 2026, and I'm huddled in a Berlin café, laptop glowing amid the winter chill, as the EU AI Act's deadlines loom like a digital storm front. Just days ago, on February 2, the European Commission finally dropped those long-awaited guidelines for Article 6 on post-market monitoring, but according to Hyperight reports, they missed their own legal deadline, leaving enterprises scrambling. Meanwhile, Italy's Law No. 132 of 2025—published in the Official Gazette on September 25 and effective October 10—makes it the first EU nation to fully transpose the Act, setting up clear rules for transparency and human oversight that startups in Milan are already racing to adopt. Across the Channel in Dublin, Ireland's General Scheme of the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026 establishes the AI Office of Ireland, operational by August 1, as VinciWorks notes, positioning the Emerald Isle as a governance pacesetter with regulatory sandboxes for testing high-risk systems. Germany, not far behind, approved its draft law last week, per QNA reports, aiming for a fair digital space that balances innovation with transparency. And Spain's AESIA watchdog unleashed 16 compliance guides this month, born from their pilot sandbox, detailing specs for finance and healthcare AI. But here's the techie twist that's keeping me up at night: August 2, 2026, is the reckoning. SecurePrivacy.ai warns that high-risk systems—like AI screening job candidates at companies in Amsterdam or credit scoring in Paris—must comply or face fines up to 7% of global turnover, potentially €35 million for prohibited tech like real-time biometric ID in public spaces, banned since February 2025. The risk pyramid is brutal: unacceptable practices like emotion recognition in workplaces are outlawed, while Annex III high-risk AI demands lifecycle risk management under Article 9—anticipating misuse, mitigating bias, and reporting incidents to the European AI Office within 72 hours. Yet uncertainty swirls. The late-2025 Digital Omnibus proposal, as the European Parliament's think tank outlines, might push some Annex III obligations to December 2027 or relax GDPR overlaps for AI training data, but Regulativ.ai urges don't bet on it—70% of requirements are crystal clear now. With guidance delays on technical standards and conformity assessments, per their analysis, we're in a gap where compliance is mandatory but blueprints are fuzzy. Gartner’s 2026 AI Adoption Survey shows agentic AI in 40% of Fortune 500 ops, amplifying the stakes for customer experience bots in Brussels call centers. This Act isn't just red tape; it's a philosophical pivot. It mandates explanations for high-risk decisions under Article 86, empowering individuals against black-box verdicts in hiring or lending. As boards in Luxembourg grapple with inventories and FRIA-DPIA fusions, the question burns: will trustworthy AI become a competitive moat, or will laggards bleed billions? Europe’s forging a global template, listeners, where innovation bows to rights—pushing the world toward ethical silicon souls. Thanks for tuning in, and remember to subscribe for more. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai. Some great Deals https://amzn.to/49SJ3Qs For more check out http://www.quietplease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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Welcome to "The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act" podcast, your go-to source for in-depth insights into the groundbreaking AI regulations shaping the future of technology within the EU. Join us as we explore the intricacies of the AI Act, its impact on various industries, and the legal frameworks established to ensure ethical AI development and deployment. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, legal professional, or business leader, this podcast provides valuable information and analysis to keep you informed and compliant with the latest AI regulations. Stay ahead of the curve with "The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act" podcast – where we decode the EU's AI policies and their global implications. Subscribe now and never miss an episode! Keywords: European Union, Artificial Intelligence Act, AI regulations, EU AI policy, AI compliance, AI risk management, technology law, AI ethics, AI governance, AI podcast.

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