🚨 BREAKING: Today, July 12th, the EU AI Act is published in the Official Journal, and the enforcement countdown starts. Here's what you must add to your calendar: 📌 August 1st, 2024: The AI Act will enter into force; 📌 February 2025: Chapters I (general provisions) & II (prohibited AI systems) will apply; 📌 August 2025: Chapter III Section 4 (notifying authorities), Chapter V (general purpose AI models), Chapter VII (governance), Chapter XII (confidentiality and penalties), and Article 78 (confidentiality) will apply, except for Article 101 (fines for General Purpose AI providers); 📌 August 2026: the whole AI Act applies, except for Article 6(1) & corresponding obligations (one of the categories of high-risk AI systems); 📌 August 2027 - Article 6(1) & corresponding obligations apply. ➡ The EU AI Act's official description is: "Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (EC) No 300/2008, (EU) No 167/2013, (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2019/2144 and Directives 2014/90/EU, (EU) 2016/797 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Artificial Intelligence Act) Text with EEA relevance." ➡ Below is the official link to the law: don't forget to bookmark it. ➡ The AI, Tech & Privacy Academy's summer cohort of the EU AI Act Bootcamp starts NEXT WEEK. If you want to master the AI Act's main concepts and rules and get ready for regulatory challenges in AI, you can't miss it (link below). ➡ To stay up to date with the latest developments in AI policy & regulation, join 28,500+ people who subscribe to my weekly newsletter.