The AI Omnibus entered into force on 27 July, extending the AI Office, the Commission's supervisor for general-purpose models, to systems built on those models inside large platforms and search engines1. Reach changed rather than dates. A chatbot feature bolted into a search product and the model answering behind it now sit with one supervisor instead of two.
The high-risk timelines the Omnibus carries are the ones negotiated in the May deal we reported at the time: 2 December 2027 for the Annex III list of high-risk uses, and 2 August 2028 for high-risk AI embedded in regulated physical products. Neither change touches Article 101 or the general-purpose dates in Article 113 of the EU AI Act, so the penalty clock that started on 2 August runs on its own schedule. For a platform operator the practical consequence lands in correspondence rather than in court: questions about a deployed feature and questions about the model behind it now go to the same desk in Brussels.
