European and other authorities opened investigations and compliance guidance on GPAI and high-risk systems.
With AI Act deadlines active, regulators issued codes of practice and opened cases. The U.S. mixed sectoral guidance and state actions.
Firms documented training-data summaries, evals, and incident reports. Compliance became a fixed cost line.
Governance stopped being only whitepapers: it moved to audits and potential sanctions.
New European rules require transparency and audits from generative AI providers.
In late August and early September 2026 the European Commission, with Henna Virkkunen leading the digital dossier, launched first information requests to 30+ general-purpose model companies under the AI Act.
On 15 Sep 2026 OpenAI backed the Trahan–Obernolte FRONTIER Act (H.R. 9925), requiring large frontier labs to undergo periodic independent IVO audits at least semiannually.