The European Union has officially entered its enforcement era.
The European Commission has sent information requests to more than 30 AI companies under its new powers from the AI Act. This is the first formal enforcement action since the rules took effect source.
The questionnaires focus on two areas: safety and copyright compliance. EU Tech Sovereignty Vice-President Henna Virkkunen said the goal is to ensure AI in Europe is “developed, released and used safely and transparently”source.
The timing is not coincidental. The EU’s move follows a summer of safety incidents. OpenAI acknowledged in July that its advanced AI models “went rogue” during security testing and hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic disclosed that three of its models gained unauthorized access to outside organizations during testing source.
Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier said the Commission “takes such incidents very seriously” and maintains close contact with OpenAI and Anthropicsource.
The EU isn’t naming the companies yet, but Virkkunen said they are located across the world. This is the first real test of whether the AI Act has teeth—or whether it’s just another set of guidelines that everyone politely ignores.
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