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European Union Artificial Intelligence Act

17 essays tagged “European Union Artificial Intelligence Act”.

Concept: Wikidata · Q108456694

09.07 2026
№ 78

AI Act Compliance GDPR NIS2 Cyber Resilience Act EU Regulation Digital Health

Seventeen Months Are Not a Grace Period

The Digital Omnibus pushed the AI Act's high-risk obligations to 2027, and healthcare software breathed a sigh of relief. But the pressure never came from that deadline: it comes from three clocks, enforcement, engineering and the market, and none of them was touched.

9′ reading time

1,953 words

04.07 2026
№ 77

Compliance AI Act CRA PLD EU Regulation Software Development SME

Compliance Doesn't Fail for Lack of Rules, It Fails for Lack of Inventory

Five European regulations, written by different hands for different sectors, are converging on the same demand: prove you know what you have in the house. Whoever can't answer isn't non-compliant, they're ungovernable. And the inventory that's needed isn't compiled: it's generated.

7′ reading time

1,416 words

30.06 2026
№ 76

AI Digital Sovereignty Philosophy of Technology AI Act China Politics of Technology Compliance

The Name of the Future

On artificial intelligence as a political fact before a technical one, on the translation that never quite lands, and on what a country loses when it imports the words along with the machines.

11′ reading time

2,433 words

17.06 2026
№ 74

AI Act Compliance EU Regulation AI SME GDPR Digital Sovereignty

The Digital Omnibus Is Not an Amnesty

Brussels moved a few AI Act deadlines and confirmed everything else. For a small or mid-sized IT company that had just started getting serious about compliance, this is the moment to accelerate, not to slow down.

14′ reading time

2,915 words

16.06 2026
№ 73

Antitrust Meta AI Act EU Regulation Digital Sovereignty AI DMA

Before It Becomes Irreparable

On June 9 the Commission ordered Meta to reopen WhatsApp to rival AI assistants within five days. It is the rarest interim measure in European competition law, and it is a meditation on time disguised as an administrative order.

10′ reading time

2,210 words

27.05 2026
№ 69

AI AI Act Digital Sovereignty Compliance Ethics Humanism

The Human Is a Stance

I am an atheist, I come from philosophy, I work in European compliance. Leo XIV's first encyclical on artificial intelligence is not something I signed, it is something I argued with. And I found in it a vocabulary that Brussels still lacks.

10′ reading time

2,096 words

13.05 2026
№ 67

AI Act AI Compliance EU Regulation IT Market Work

Twelve Jobs in Search of a Market

The first national European standard on AI professional profiles was published on 30 April. It is worth taking seriously, and it is worth mistrusting in the right way.

6′ reading time

1,312 words

05.05 2026
№ 64

Digital Sovereignty GDPR AI Act DSA Politics OF Technology

The Spectre We Are

A long reckoning with European digital regulation seen from the outside—by those who hate it—and a counter-reading from inside, by those who translate those rules into technical objects every working day.

22′ reading time

4,950 words

01.05 2026
№ 63

Compliance PLD AI Act CRA EU Regulation

The Contract's Deception

On why the software supply contract, as we have known it, has stopped being the central instrument of the relationship between vendor and client — and how much it costs to keep pretending it still is.

19′ reading time

4.180 words

01.05 2026
№ 62

Compliance Work Software Development AI Act Labour Market

The Rise of the Compliance Engineer

On the figure now emerging from the gap between software engineering and European regulation, and on why almost no one is noticing in time.

16′ reading time

3.520 words

01.05 2026
№ 61

Compliance AI Act PLD Technical Debt Philosophy OF Technology

The Specification Debt

On why the document that certifies the system ages worse than the code that implements it, and why the next generation of civil software-liability cases will be fought over the specification.

19′ reading time

4.420 words

27.04 2026
№ 59

Compliance EU Regulation AI Act CRA Philosophy OF Technology Architecture Strategy

The Shape of Constraint

Treating regulatory compliance as the adversary of the technical project means you haven't understood what the technical project is. An essay on the category error weakening Europe's software industry — and on how the European framework, read as a system rather than as a list, configures a structural competitive advantage for those who learn to inhabit it.

16′ reading time

3.842 words

07.04 2026
№ 53

AI Act Behavioral Biometrics Biometric Data Continuous Authentication

Behavior Is the New Credential. And That's a Problem.

Cybersecurity is undergoing a transition that deserves more attention than it gets: online authentication is shifting from what you know to how you behave.

10′ reading time

2.226 words

06.04 2026
№ 52

AI Act Compliance Microsoft Copilot PLD

Microsoft Wrote the Perfect Confession—and You'll Pay the Bill

It’s tempting to dismiss it as a legal team slip-up. It isn’t. Terms of Use aren’t written by accident—and every word is meant for court.

19′ reading time

4.112 words

30.03 2026
№ 51

AI Act Compliance Cyber Resilience Act Governance

The advisory blind spot: what an IT vendor knows that an analyst doesn't

A few weeks ago I received an advisory report on IT services in our segment. It was solid, but it missed what only delivery-side vendors learn.

6′ reading time

1.365 words

25.03 2026
№ 47

AI Act Digital Addiction EU Regulation Humanism

Progress Is Not a Direction: Anatomy of a Dangerous Misconception

When people shout that the state is "holding back progress," are they really talking about progress: or something else entirely?

29′ reading time

6.442 words

17.03 2026
№ 43

Compliance EU Regulation AI Act Architecture

EU compliance 2026: it's architecture, not just legal

Over the next 18 months CRA, AI Act, PLD, NIS2 and EAA will reshape European software. Compliance isn’t a checkbox: it’s designed into architecture.

11′ reading time

2.331 words

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