EU AI Act takes effect for GPAI providers August 2
by Sypher | Published in News - August 04, 2025
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EU AI Act takes effect for GPAI providers August 2
📆 From 2 August 2025, organisations offering general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) models in the European Union are required to comply with the EU AI Act. This includes obligations such as maintaining up-to-date technical documentation and providing summaries of the training data used… read more
OpenAI quickly rolled back a new feature that allowed users to make private conversations with ChatGPT searchable
businessinsider.com • 3 min read
💥OpenAI is shutting down a short-lived feature that allowed users to make their ChatGPT conversations discoverable via search engines. Although the opt-in feature was intended to help users share useful chats, it sparked privacy concerns after reports surfaced of sensitive content appearing in search results. The company cited the risk of accidental oversharing as the main reason for reversing the change… read more
Related article on FastCompany.
European Court of Justice: No deviation from GDPR standards via works agreements
🧑⚖️The European Court of Justice has ruled that companies cannot use internal agreements with works councils to bypass GDPR rules. All processing of employee data must comply fully with the GDPR, even during testing or system changes… read more
EU AI Act Regulatory Directory
📜 This IAPP tool identifies the competent authorities responsible for implementing and enforcing the EU Artificial Intelligence Act.
Authorities fall into three categories: market surveillance and notification authorities, collectively known as national competent authorities, and national authorities responsible for protecting fundamental rights... read more
EU Releases AI Training Data Template
📝 As mentioned in the previous entry of this news wrap-up, from August 2025 onwards, providers of general-purpose AI models will be required to publish summaries of the data used to train their models, in accordance with a new EU template. This article analyses the long-awaited mandatory AI training data template, published by the European Commission on 24 July 2025.
The template sets out how these summaries must be structured and what information they should contain. Although the intention is to increase transparency, these summaries are broad and may not offer the detailed insights or licensing opportunities that copyright holders are seeking… read more
Additional insights in this MAYER | BROWN article.
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