EU AI Act

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Anthropic Just Watermarked Every Word Claude Writes (Including Yours)

Anthropic started embedding invisible, machine-readable watermarks in text generated by Claude models launched on or after August 2, 2026. The marks apply worldwide, survive copy and paste, and may persist through light editing. Detection tools arrive later, which means Claude-drafted content published today becomes checkable after the fact, by whoever

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The EU AI Act's December 2027 Delay Skips Past Most Marketing Tools

The EU Council and Parliament reached a provisional deal on May 7, 2026 pushing the AI Act's high-risk compliance deadlines to December 2, 2027 for stand-alone systems and August 2, 2028 for AI embedded in regulated products. Most marketing AI never qualified as high-risk under Annex III, so

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AI Labels Cut Ad Clicks by 31% and No Two Platforms Agree What Counts

Nobody in advertising wants to talk about this directly, but telling consumers an ad was made with AI makes that ad perform significantly worse. And the rules about when you have to tell them are arriving faster than most teams realize, from at least three different directions, with almost no