The EU AI Act's core enforcement problem is not that technology outpaced regulation — it is that the regulation outpaced its own implementation. The Act passed, the compliance deadlines were set, and then the European Commission missed its deadline for publishing the guidance that would tell organizations what the law actually required of them in practice [15]. With enforcement 139 days out from the time this story was reported, legal teams were supposed to be finalizing compliance programs for high-risk AI systems against a standard that had not been finalized.…