The EU AI Act Quietly Changed What Compliance Means

By choosing GitHub Copilot — a tool embedded in the daily work of millions of developers — the AI Office signaled that the Act applies broadly, not only to high-risk applications but to any deployer of a general-purpose AI system. The choice of Microsoft, rather than OpenAI, made the deployment relationship the focus: the regulator is reading the Act to hold deployers responsible for the transparency of the AI they integrate, even when they did not develop the model. This reading gives the Article 50 transparency obligation teeth that many…