The EU AI Act's rewrite was not triggered by enforcement failures — it was completed before enforcement began. Trilogue negotiators reached a provisional agreement on 7 May on the Digital Omnibus on AI, a package that formally delays key obligations and trims provisions that industry groups had labeled unworkable. Brussels framed this as simplification; the Register's coverage of the Digital Omnibus agreement characterized it more precisely as a 16-month regulatory snooze following sustained industry backlash. The distinction matters: simplification implies the original text was technically flawed, while backlash implies the…