While much of the AI Act’s use-based high-risk regime is set to move to December 2027, and product-integrated high-risk systems to August 2028, data-protection authorities have kept fining AI-enabled biometrics and profiling under the law already in force and ordering unlawfully collected data deleted.

The 7 May Omnibus deal — still a provisional agreement, pending formal adoption — would delay the high-risk rules. It leaves the general-purpose AI obligations exactly where they are. For model builders, the enforcement clock does not move at all.

The EU delayed its high-risk AI obligations on 7 May and published 148 pages of classification guidance on 19 May. Read together, the two acts say the same thing — the date moved, the expectation did not.

The headlines in September 2025 highlight a paradox. As governments and enterprises adopt advanced AI tools to strengthen cyber-defense, attackers are exploiting the same technology to probe weaknesses and launch more sophisticated campaigns. Recent briefings from the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA, 2025) and mid-year threat-intelligence reports from major cloud providers such as…

In September 2025, the UN Security Council elevated AI to the level of global peace and security concerns, opening talks on frameworks to counter AI-driven cyberattacks, disinformation, and autonomous weapons. The move signals that AI governance is now part of collective security.

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