EU AI Act update, 9 May 2026: current law remains the baseline. The Digital Omnibus provisional agreement would move many high-risk AI obligations to 2 Dec 2027 and product-integrated high-risk AI rules to 2 Aug 2028 if formally adopted. Track status EU AI Act update: current law remains the baseline. Digital Omnibus dates apply only if formally adopted. Track status

EU AI Compass Articles

Read the right EU AI Act article for your next task

Q: Where should I start?

Start with current law. Then read classification, evidence, transparency, and monitoring articles. The blog is grouped by task, not publication date, so you can move from legal baseline to practical records.

Q: Which article should I read first?

If you are starting from zero, read Article 5 prohibited practices, then Article 4 AI literacy, then the timeline article. If you already use AI systems, go to the Annex III checklist and audit questions hub.

Q: Are Digital Omnibus updates treated as law?

No. Digital Omnibus and other proposal-stage pages are grouped separately from current-law guidance. Use them for monitoring and planning assumptions, not as a replacement for adopted law.

Q: What is the difference between articles and evidence guides?

Articles explain a legal or governance issue. Evidence guides turn that issue into records, checklists, routing questions, and review steps.

Q: Does the blog provide legal advice?

No. The blog is educational. It does not determine legal status, confirm compliance, or replace qualified legal, privacy, regulatory, or sector advice.

Q: Does EU AI Compass store reading or assessment data?

EU AI Compass uses no-login browser-based tools. It may use local browser storage for consent choices and selected tool progress. Google Analytics is not used in this version. Do not enter confidential, personal, or legally privileged information into public webpages.

These are EU AI Compass educational articles, not official EU guidance, legal advice, or a compliance guarantee. Start with current law, then use the article groups to classify systems, build records, check Article 50 notices, and track changes.

Start with current law Find evidence articles

Regulatory update

Current law is the baseline. Track Digital Omnibus separately.

The 7 May 2026 Digital Omnibus provisional agreement would move many high-risk AI duties to later dates if it is formally adopted and published. Until final text confirms the change, keep the current-law baseline, inventory work, role checks, vendor evidence, Article 50 review, and evidence records moving.

Digital Omnibus cluster

Use the cluster in the right order.

Start with the router, then open the guide that matches the planning track: standards readiness, product-integrated AI, or SME and small-mid-cap relief.

TOOL · 3 MIN

Omnibus Deadline Router

Separate current-law dates from 2026, 2027, and 2028 planning tracks for one AI system.

GUIDE · 5 MIN

Standards Readiness After the Omnibus

Build evidence structures that can absorb harmonised standards and common specifications when they arrive.

GUIDE · 5 MIN

Product-Integrated AI Systems and 2028

Connect AI Act planning with the product safety file, supplier evidence, and sectoral-law overlap.

GUIDE · 5 MIN

Small Mid-Cap Relief After the Omnibus

Treat SME and small-mid-cap relief as a planning issue, not an exemption from records.

Digital Omnibus 2026 guides

Recent Digital Omnibus articles

Prohibited-practice watch

EU AI Act nudification ban

Review image, avatar, video, editing, and vendor workflows for non-consensual intimate-content risk.

Evidence planning

EU AI Act delay does not mean pause

Keep inventory, vendor checks, Article 50 review, oversight records, AI literacy, and decision logs moving.

Google AI governance

New Google I/O 2026 governance article

Use this article when Google AI news has created a practical question: who owns the AI feature, what data does it touch, and what evidence should the organisation keep before the feature spreads across daily work?

Google I/O 2026 AI governance ownership map for inventory, evidence, disclosure, and EU AI Act readiness

READ · 7 MIN

Google AI

Google I/O 2026 made one AI governance problem harder to ignore: AI features need owners

This is not a launch recap. It routes Google AI users to the practical records that matter first: inventory, owner, data, output audience, disclosure review, literacy evidence, vendor file, and deployer evidence route.

Use the readiness guideChoose the right Google AI tool first. Start the inventory templateRecord feature, owner, purpose, data, output, and evidence. Check Article 50 signalsReview chatbot, synthetic-content, public text, and disclosure triggers.

READ · 4 MIN

Step 1

Know what already applies

Article 5, Article 4, adopted dates, and the baseline to plan against.

READ · 4 MIN

Step 2

Check the system type

Annex III, provider/deployer role, scope questions, and framework links.

TEMPLATE · 3 MIN

Step 3

Find evidence articles

Inventory, vendor records, oversight logs, Article 50 notices, and incident paths.

READ · 4 MIN

Step 4

Track changes separately

Digital Omnibus updates, national enforcement, weekly notes, and incident signals.

Current-law baseline

Start with rules that already matter

Before debating possible changes, clear the basics: prohibited practices, AI literacy, adopted dates, and the current-law readiness baseline.

READ · 4 MIN

ARTICLE 5

All 8 Prohibited AI Practices Under Article 5

Start here for AI uses that may need to stop or be redesigned before a readiness plan. The article explains each prohibition with practical examples.

READ · 4 MIN

ARTICLE 4

Article 4 AI literacy: what to record now

Use this when your team needs training records and a role-based literacy plan for people who use or oversee AI.

READ · 4 MIN

TIMELINE

EU AI Act timeline: current law vs Digital Omnibus

Keep adopted dates separate from proposals. Read this before changing deadlines, policy wording, or board updates.

READ · 4 MIN

CURRENT LAW

EU AI Act August 2026 baseline: what SMEs should prepare

Use this after the timeline article when you need a practical plan for inventory, classification, evidence owners, and review.

Classification and governance

Check scope and risk before building controls

Weak classification creates weak evidence. These articles help you separate Annex III risk, governance controls, and sandbox decisions.

READ · 4 MIN

ANNEX III

High-risk AI systems: Annex III checklist

Read this before assuming a system is low-risk, high-risk, or outside scope. Focus on use case, impact, and evidence.

EU AI Act ISO 42001 and NIST AI RMF crosswalk

ARTICLE · 4 MIN

FRAMEWORKS

EU AI Act vs ISO 42001 vs NIST AI RMF

Use this when your controls already reference ISO/IEC 42001 or NIST AI RMF and you need to map them to EU AI Act evidence.

ARTICLE · 4 MIN

SANDBOXES

AI regulatory sandboxes under the current-law baseline

Read this if you are considering supervised testing, public-sector pilots, or innovation routes before wider use.

Evidence and transparency

Turn reading into records

Once a system is in scope, ask what you can show. Use these guides when an article points to an inventory, vendor, Article 50, AI agent, or audit gap.

3 MIN

Evidence file Deployer evidence file template Build a local evidence file for inventory, role and risk rationale, vendor evidence, oversight, logs, Article 50, impact review, incidents, and audit index.

READ · 11 MIN

Audit questions Audit and regulator questions Question-led hub for inventory, classification, vendor evidence, Article 50, impact review, incidents, and dates.

READ · 14 MIN

Inventory AI system inventory fields Field-level guide for system records, owners, vendors, Article 50 triggers, impact review, incidents, and dates.

TEMPLATE · 10 MIN

Evidence EU AI Act evidence checklist Checklist for classification, vendor files, oversight logs, disclosure records, and incident workflow.

RESOURCE · 10 MIN

Vendor evidence Vendor due diligence checklist Questions to ask providers and vendors before deploying high-risk or possibly high-risk AI systems.

5 MIN

Vendor request Vendor evidence request builder Local tool for supplier questions, document requests, internal follow-ups, and red-flag checks.

TEMPLATE · 10 MIN

Article 50 Article 50 implementation pack Route transparency scenarios, content marking checks, notice templates, and evidence records.

READ · 13 MIN

Disclosure Article 50 disclosure checklist Checklist for AI interaction notices, deepfake disclosure, biometric notices, and public-interest AI-generated text.

3 MIN

AI agents AI agent evidence checklist Evidence guide for agent workflows, autonomy boundaries, tool permissions, oversight, logs, and incidents.

2 MIN

Evidence plan 30-day evidence planner A 30-day workflow for inventory, vendor evidence, Article 50 review, oversight, logs, and gap owners.

TEMPLATE · 12 MIN

Deadline August 2026 current-law tracker Tracker for Article 26, Article 50, Annex III triage, inventory, logs, and evidence planning.

RESOURCE · 9 MIN

Comparison EU AI Act vs Colorado AI Act: deployer duties Comparison for teams managing EU and Colorado AI governance evidence together.

READ · 4 MIN

ARTICLE 50

Article 50 code vs law

Start here if your system interacts with people, generates synthetic content, supports biometric categorisation, or creates public-facing AI text.

READ · 4 MIN

CONTENT MARKING

Article 50 Code of Practice: scope and limits

Use this after the law-versus-code article to separate Article 50 duties from voluntary implementation support.

Regulatory monitoring

Track change without changing your baseline too early

Digital Omnibus updates, enforcement signals, weekly notes, and public incidents belong in a monitoring track. Keep that track separate from current-law controls until the law changes.

Digital Omnibus proposal and EU AI Act planning

TEMPLATE · 3 MIN

PROPOSAL WATCH

Digital Omnibus: what is live, what is proposed, and how to plan

Track provisional-agreement changes without treating them as adopted law. Useful for management updates and change registers.

ARTICLE · 4 MIN

ENFORCEMENT

EU AI Act National Enforcement Tracker

Use this to monitor national authority designations, enacted powers, and readiness signals without mixing them into one confidence level.

READ · 4 MIN

WEEKLY INTEL

EU AI Act Weekly Intel: Week Ending March 16, 2026

Read this for a short update on Council movement, ECB credit scoring commentary, and healthcare AI consultation activity.

READ · 4 MIN

WEEKLY INTEL

EU AI Act Weekly Intel: Week Ending 8 March, 2026

Read this for earlier monitoring across confirmed changes, proposals, soft law, and founder actions.

Grok deepfake crisis and EU AI regulation analysis

READ · 4 MIN

CASE ANALYSIS

Grok deepfake crisis and EU AI regulation

Use this as incident context for deepfake risk, public pressure, and why transparency records matter.

Frequently Asked Questions

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What is the difference between articles and evidence guides?

Does the blog provide legal advice?

Does EU AI Compass store reading or assessment data?

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