
AI Act: First Risk Evaluation Deadline Today
Models exceeding 10^25 FLOPs must submit reports by today; 24 national authorities are conducting technical audits.
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Models exceeding 10^25 FLOPs must submit reports by today; 24 national authorities are conducting technical audits.

The 38-page document outlines what MAI models can and cannot do, and who has the authority to disable them. The public consultation lasts six weeks.

New regulations effective Tuesday allow bans for citizens seen as tech security risks.

In an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning," the Anthropic founder claimed the AI industry underestimated risks and proposed independent inspectors with continuous access to models.

The U.S. Department of Justice has formally requested information from Nvidia regarding its $20 billion licensing deal with Groq, raising concerns over antitrust review.

ChangXin Memory Technologies, the largest Chinese DRAM manufacturer and fourth in the world with an 8% global market share, filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court of Washington on August 29. The company was designated as a Chinese military company by the Pentagon in January 2025.

Product for ages 13 to 17 uses age prediction instead of verification and anticipates some of the regulation that American states, the European Union, and Brazil are still negotiating, in the week that the Meta trial began in Oakland.

A coalition of 29 U.S. state attorneys general opened the case on Tuesday, under Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, which could reshape Facebook and Instagram and reopen the discussion on Section 230 across the industry.

A Reuters report on August 6 reveals lawsuits against Google's largest AI infrastructure project outside the U.S. A hearing scheduled for August 24 could delay a timeline that is already sparking political disputes in Visakhapatnam.

Starting August 2, the European Commission can request technical documentation, assess models, and impose fines of up to 3% of global revenue on general-purpose AI suppliers that fail to comply with the AI Act.

The European Commission can now inspect models, restrict the European market, and impose fines of up to 3% of global revenue. Meta remains outside the Code of Practice.

The Commission can now impose fines of up to €15 million or 3% of global revenue on general-purpose models since August 2. Article 50 requires chatbots to declare themselves, and synthetic content to be labeled.