EU Buys Time for Schools While Models and Agents Accelerate
1. EU AI Act Gets Its First Major Overhaul On May 7, EU institutions reached a provisional agreement on the Digital Omnibus on AI — the first set of amendments to the AI Act since it passed in June 2024. The biggest change: compliance deadlines for high-risk AI systems (Annex III) pushed back 16 months, from August 2026 to December 2027 , giving companies meaningful runway. Two new prohibitions added, effective December 2026: AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery and child sexual abuse material are now explicitly banned. Penalties tightened — Article 25 breaches now carry fines of 3% of worldwide turnover ; formal adoption expected this month with amendments entering force in July. 2. EU Launches Tech Sovereignty Package to Break US/China Dependency The European Commission proposed the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) , a sweeping framework to reduce the EU's reliance on US and Chinese cloud and AI providers. The package establishes tiered "sovereignty levels"...
