# EU AI Act Enforcement Powers Fully Activate; GPAI Systemic Risk Evaluations Due Sept 15

> As of early August, the European Union's AI Act is no longer just on the books, it is enforceable. Regulators now have the power to impose fines and order corrective action in high-risk and general-purpose AI categories, and the biggest model makers face a concrete near-term deadline. Providers of general-purpose foundation models trained above 10 to the 25th floating point operations must submit formal systemic risk evaluations to the new European AI Office by September 15. This is the point where years of drafting, amendments, and political negotiation start to bite. Companies serving European users have to show their homework on safety and risk rather than promise it, and the threshold based on raw compute is a clear signal that regulators are watching the frontier most closely. Some provisions, like parts of Article 6, do not fully apply until 2027, so the rollout is staged, but the era of the AI Act as a paper commitment is effectively over.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: EU AI Act Hub · Published Sunday, September 6, 2026_

## Wortins' read

As of early August, the European Union's AI Act is no longer just on the books, it is enforceable. Regulators now have the power to impose fines and order corrective action in high-risk and general-purpose AI categories, and the biggest model makers face a concrete near-term deadline. Providers of general-purpose foundation models trained above 10 to the 25th floating point operations must submit formal systemic risk evaluations to the new European AI Office by September 15. This is the point where years of drafting, amendments, and political negotiation start to bite. Companies serving European users have to show their homework on safety and risk rather than promise it, and the threshold based on raw compute is a clear signal that regulators are watching the frontier most closely. Some provisions, like parts of Article 6, do not fully apply until 2027, so the rollout is staged, but the era of the AI Act as a paper commitment is effectively over.

## Source

[Read the full story at EU AI Act Hub](https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/)

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