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Twenty countries called for UN-level oversight of frontier AI in September 2026, with the UN Security Council briefed by Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs — raising the prospect of international compliance obligations above the national regulatory level.
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Spain's data protection authority warned in September 2026 that AI CV screening tools are already subject to GDPR enforcement obligations — independently of the AI Act rules arriving in 2027.
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The Council of Europe launched a standardised framework for testing algorithmic discrimination in September 2026 — establishing the methodology regulators will use to detect proxy discrimination in credit, employment, and advertising AI.
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The EU AI Act's enforcement powers over general-purpose AI model providers became operational on 2 August 2026, with the AI Office issuing its first information requests to providers within days.