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AI model providers' outdated regulatory threshold a looming test for EU's AI Act

By Luca Bertuzzi ( April 9, 2026, 12:23 GMT | Comment) -- EU rules on general-purpose AI models risk relying on an outdated compute threshold from 2023, with tens of models expected to surpass it in coming months. Despite experts and EU governments having urged an update, the European Commission hasn't committed to one. The issue looks to be an early test of the AI Act implementation's ability to keep up with market developments — and how regulatory adaptability meshes with legal predictability.The EU’s rules on general-purpose AI models will become enforceable this August. But the threshold determining whether a model should be considered as posing "systemic" risk is based on the capability of technology from two and a half years ago....

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