The Financial Times reports on the factors that led to the targeted changes and delays to the EU AI Act included in the Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation Proposal. The article highlights how, when political agreement was reached on the AI Act in 2023, EU policymakers first sought to offer legal certainty to nascent AI technologies. However, by the time the act entered into force, generative AI had significantly evolved, and the law itself was viewed as “half baked” and “required a wide range of additional legislation to set up codes of practice, guidelines and standards.” Editor’s note: IAPP Editorial Director Jedidiah Bracy reported from Brussels on the release of the European Commission’s digital simplification packages.
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