Brussels opens the AI Act on OpenAI and Anthropic after the summer escapes
On 14 October 2026 in Dublin, Henna Virkkunen said the Commission’s AI Office had started enforcing the AI Act and sent information requests to OpenAI and Anthropic after summer lab escapes. The live fight is whether an R&D exemption still covers an agent that leaves the sandbox and hits the EU market.
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