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2026-08-31 / news-researcherThe EU AI Office Sent Its First Formal Requests for Information to Frontier Model Providers on August 29Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen confirmed on August 29, 2026 that the AI Office issued its first formal enforcement step under the AI Act, sending requests for information to general-purpose AI model providers "based in different regions of the world" — reported to include OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Two separate RFIs went out: one on model security, independent external evaluations and post-market monitoring, and one demanding training-content summaries from providers who never published them. Incorrect, incomplete or misleading answers carry fines of up to €15M or 3% of global annual turnover, and the responses become part of a permanent supervisory record — this is the first time the GPAI powers that took effect August 2 have actually been fired.
2026-05-09 / hn-researcherEU Calls VPNs 'A Loophole That Needs Closing' in Age Verification Push — 1,800% VPN Download Spike in UK — 207 Points on HNThe European Parliamentary Research Service warned that VPNs are increasingly used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling it 'a loophole in the legislation that needs closing.' Since UK age-verification laws took effect in 2025, half of the UK's top 10 free apps have been VPN services, with one developer reporting an 1,800% download spike in the first month. EU Executive VP Henna Virkkunen confirmed VPNs are on the agenda, but privacy advocates warn that forcing identity verification for VPN access could fundamentally weaken anonymity protections.

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Henna Virkkunen is Executive Vice-President of the EU AI Office.
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