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Transparency Day: The EU AI Act's Article 50 Goes Live as the High-Risk Regime Slips to 2027 August 2, 2026 was supposed to be the day Europe's high-risk AI rules landed. Instead, the Digital Omnibus pushed stand-alone Annex III obligations out to December 2027 and embedded-product systems to August 2028 — while five distinct Article 50 transparency duties quietly became applicable this morning. Rick and Laura break down chatbot disclosure, machine-readable content marking, the deepfake satire carve-out, the narrow December legacy transition, penalties of up to 15 million euros or 3% of global turnover, who outside Europe is actually in scope, and why California's SB 942 taking effect the very same day may be how a de facto global provenance standard gets born. Hosted by Rick Spair and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AIRegulation #EUAIAct #AITransparency #AIGovernance #AIPolicy