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The AI Act's Transparency Duty Just Went Live — Here's What Actually Changed
This week's news: the EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency duties and GPAI enforcement powers take effect on 2 August, Nvidia and 30+ firms launch a security alliance after the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach (notably without OpenAI, Google or Anthropic), and Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over the first state ban on AI "nudification" apps.
Runs the Article 50 & GPAI applicability interview live against a real set of AI tools, showing what an honest answer looks like in each area.
Watch the workshop →Interrogates your AI systems against each Article 50 transparency trigger and the Article 53/55 GPAI thresholds, ending with a prioritised action list and vendor questions.
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Brussels Just Took the Teeth Out of Most of the AI Act — But Not the Part That Bites on 2 August
OpenAI's own model broke out of its sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face's servers to cheat a benchmark — a stark reminder of why Technical and Organisational Measures matter.
Watch the workshop →Interviews you across seven areas — Backup, Authentication, Testing, Firewall, Internal Controls, Supply Chain, Training — then produces a RAG-rated summary and a list of evidence to request.
Get the prompt →This issue's news: the EU's Digital Omnibus defers most high-risk AI Act obligations by up to two years while the 2 August transparency and GPAI deadlines hold, Anthropic's $1.5bn book-piracy settlement gets final court approval, and an appeals court sanctions a lawyer over citations it only "suspected" were AI-generated. Read the full issue →
Two Weeks Until Brussels Can Fine — and Pull — an AI Model
Walks through an agent that browses, searches and runs checkout up to (never through) the final payment screen, flagging friction points and likely breaches of UK consumer law.
Watch the workshop →A worked example audit report — experience scorecard, RAG compliance findings table, and a remediation plan — for a fictional retailer.
See the worked example →This issue's news: the Commission's AI Office gains fining and market-withdrawal powers over GPAI models from 2 August, a New York court fines a lawyer $10,500 over fake AI citations, and the New York Times accuses OpenAI of hiding evidence in the copyright trial. Read the full issue →
Three Weeks Until Your Chatbots Have to Say They're Not Human
What the agent-building process can honestly complete for itself versus what must stay with a human, run in under an hour before launch.
Watch the workshop →A twelve-page risk check covering data protection, the EU AI Act, IP and practical risks, split into what an agent-build can complete itself and what needs human sign-off.
Download the assessment →This issue's news: the AI Act's Article 50 transparency duty lands 2 August (unaffected by the high-risk delay), Google beats the Gemini "silent switch" privacy suit on standing, and Google's white paper argues AI training can never itself infringe copyright. Read the full issue →
Brussels Made the AI Act Delay Official — But One Deadline Just Moved Closer
A reusable workflow that builds a profile of your business, then triages any real contract against it to produce a routing note.
Watch the workshop →Builds a departmental triage profile once, then reuses it to route every new contract with a ready-to-send routing note.
Get the workflow →This issue's news: the Council of the EU finalises the AI Act simplification package while the AI-content labelling grace period is cut to 2 December 2026, a "CLM killer" launches for in-house contract teams, and a US judge cancels a trial and benches four lawyers over AI filings. Read the full issue →
The US Just Proved Your AI Vendor's Access Can Vanish Overnight
Set your risk parameters once, and AI turns them into a structured triage workflow your clients or business teams can run themselves below your threshold — anything above it still comes to you.
Watch the workshop →Builds the full triage process — risk thresholds, a decision tree, intranet page copy, and a ready-to-upload HTML page.
Get the prompt →This issue's news: a US export-control order cuts off foreign access to Anthropic's two most powerful models overnight, Brussels delays the AI Act's toughest obligations by sixteen months, and a regulated AI law firm wins its first contested trial in a UK county court. Read the full issue →
When Regulators Retreat and Courts Push Forward
Stress-test a decision before you commit to it, surfacing the obstacles that optimism and confirmation bias usually hide.
Watch the workshop →Run a structured pre-mortem on any business idea, project, or strategic decision before committing time, money, or reputation.
Get the prompt →This issue's news: the Ninth Circuit's hallucination-sanctions ruling, Colorado's AI Act repeal, and the EU's AI-content labelling rules. Read the full issue →
Building AI Your Clients and Colleagues Can Actually Trust
Spend 10 minutes with a GPT interview about your role and workflows, and get a bespoke set of 100+ business-ready agents and workflows back, free.
Watch the workshop →Work through a structured set of questions with any LLM to produce a one-page AI governance summary for your General Counsel.
Get the prompt →This issue's news: why legal AI adoption stalls at the individual level, and a major EU AI Act overhaul extending compliance deadlines. Read the full issue →
Three Ideas on AI & Agents for Legal Work
Watch a working legal AI agent built and run live, end to end, in under 30 minutes.
Watch the workshop →Paste in any contract and get the top five commercial and legal risks flagged automatically, with negotiation counter-points.
Get the prompt →This issue's news: recent AI governance developments for legal teams. Read the full issue →
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