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EU countries will soon be informed on updating ‘systemic’ AI model threshold

By Luca Bertuzzi ( July 30, 2025, 11:49 GMT | Insight) -- The European Commission will brief EU countries in September on plans to update the AI Act’s threshold for designating “systemic risk” AI models. The current threshold — based on computing power used in training — is seen as outdated due to rapid advances in AI. France and Germany have pushed for raising the bar to ease regulatory burdens on local firms. Experts including Yoshua Bengio support revising the threshold and adding a rebuttal mechanism. The commission, which can revise the threshold independently via a delegated act, prefers not to tie it to broader simplification reforms of EU digital rules.The European Commission will inform the bloc’s member states about its plan to update the AI Act’s threshold for designating the most powerful AI models “with systemic risk” at the next European AI Board meeting, which will take place on Sept. 18....

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