The news On August 29, 2026, Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, confirmed the first formal enforcement step under the EU AI Act: “As a first step in enforcing the AI Act, our AI Office has formally sent requests for information to a number of providers of general-purpose AI models based in different regions of the world. These requests concern model security, independent external evaluations, and the monitoring of mod...