Brussels strikes deal to thin out AI Act and outlaw nudification apps
After two failed trilogues, Parliament and Council finally landed a compromise that pushes the high-risk compliance deadline to December 2027, lightens paperwork for smaller firms, and writes a long-promised ban on non-consensual intimate imagery into Europe’s flagship AI law.
The European Commission confirmed on Wednesday that negotiators from the Parliament and the Council had finally reached political agreement on the so-called AI Omnibus, the package of amendments designed to soften the application of the bloc’s flagship Artificial Intelligence Act and bolt on a ban on AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery.
It took three rounds to get there. the failed 28 April session collapsed after roughly twelve hours of haggling over how AI built into regulated products should be assessed for conformity. A Wednesday session, scheduled at short notice ahead of a 13 May fallback date, closed the gap.
Executive vice-president for tech sovereignty Henna Virkkunen, who pushed the simplification drive through...
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