Al Jazeera reported on 6 August that the AI Act's most far-reaching operational requirements, the high-risk obligations covering biometrics, employment, education, essential services, migration, asylum and border management, did not take effect alongside the transparency rules and have been postponed to 2 December 2027 under the Digital Omnibus package. Those systems remain subject to the GDPR and to sector-specific regulation in the meantime, and the Commission has presented the postponement as an implementation adjustment rather than a retreat, with Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen framing the aim as easing innovation without lowering the safety threshold.

Variety reported that Suno lost its case to the German collecting society GEMA on 31 July, with the decision requiring AI companies to pay for the systematic use of GEMA's repertoire and its commercial exploitation. The requirement covers both model training and output generation, and GEMA's leadership framed the outcome as a finding that models built on unlicensed material enjoy no protection in law.

Biometric Update reported that Ofcom opened an investigation on 16 July into TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited over its use of 'age inference', a method that estimates a user's age from account activity rather than verifying it. The regulator's Age Assurance report, published the same day, suggested such models may have failed to identify a significant proportion of children, and Ofcom said inference is not listed in its guidance as capable of being highly effective, with an update due in October 2026. The Irish Times reported that a group of Meta employees has sued the company in California, alleging that AI-driven performance assessment and monitoring systems selected staff for redundancy and disproportionately tagged workers who had taken maternity, medical or other protected leave. The plaintiffs are seeking a preliminary ruling to halt the layoffs while pursuing compensation and reinstatement, and Meta maintains that the decisions were made by human managers rather than by the systems alone.