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European Commission publishes EU AI Act guidelines and code of practice for general-purpose AI models

Policy change Provisional 92% confidence first seen 30 July 2025, 17:45

The European Commission published draft Guidelines on July 18, 2025 clarifying how the EU AI Act applies to general-purpose AI models, establishing computational thresholds of 10^23 FLOPs for GPAI classification and 10^25 FLOPs for systemic-risk designation. A Code of Practice was also issued setting compliance requirements for developers, including documentation maintenance, copyright policy adherence, and safety measures, with enforcement beginning August 2, 2026 for new models and a compliance deadline of August 2, 2027 for existing models.

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The story of AI in August 2026 is one of consolidation meeting enforcement. Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a million-token context window, arrives as a direct challenge to OpenAI and Anthropic's frontier offerings—priced at $2 per million input tokens, it's positioning itself as the capable-and-cheaper alternative that China's AI push has long promised. But the more consequential development is structural: enterprises are finally getting the plumbing to actually deploy these models. June, backed by Salesforce's Marc Benioff, raised $20 million to automate AI integration into legacy systems, scanning corporate infrastructure and generating deployment workflows without expensive consultant fees. This solves what's become clear as the real bottleneck—not model capability, but implementation friction in messy, heterogeneous corporate environments.

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