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Analysis · 25 August 2026
The Two Rulebooks, the One Person, and the Answer That Is Already Out of Date
Half the compliance profession reports burnout and most small firms have no compliance staff at all. The published record they rely on does not correct itself, and AI search now repeats it. What the evidence shows, and what answers it.
Read the articleAnalysis · 25 August 2026, revised 26 August 2026
Europe Blamed the AI Act. The Delays Were Data Protection Law.
Research from the Centre for the Governance of AI finds data protection law, not the EU AI Act, behind most regulatory delay to AI models reaching Europe. What that misreading now costs a small British firm selling into the European Union.
Read the articleAnalysis · 19 August 2026
The Delay Trap: EU AI Act Rules That Apply Now, and Every EU and UK Compliance Deadline Left in 2026
The most expensive word in European compliance this year is “delayed”. Which EU AI Act duties are live now, which are deferred, and every compliance deadline left in 2026, with the days remaining on each.
Read the articleAnnouncement · 17 August 2026
Finally, compliance is not complicated
A small business can now sit down on a Tuesday morning, answer plain questions about how it operates, and stand up an hour later holding a documented compliance position for GDPR, NIS2, the AI Act or any of more than eighty other EU and UK instruments.
Read the articleAnnouncement · 14 August 2026
ComplianceSME Completes the Free Business Compliance Libraries of All Twenty-Eight Nations
Every EU member state and the United Kingdom: 24,600 company law duties, organised and free to read, completed 7 August 2026.
Read the articleThe compliance shortage · 7 August 2026
Seven builders for every governor: Europe's compliance shortage has an answer already
Axipro counted seven AI-builder roles for every governance role advertised, and the specialists cannot be hired at any price. On 7 August 2026 ComplianceSME finished the business compliance toolkits of all twenty-eight nations. The answer to the shortage is already built, and a large part of it is free.
Read the articleEU AI Act · 5 August 2026
The policy moved. The archive did not.
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 rewrote the EU AI Act's dates six days before they bit. Two years of published guidance now states the wrong law, none of it has been retracted, and AI tools answer from that archive. The fault is not the model.
Read the analysisEU AI Act · 31 July 2026
The Digital Omnibus deferral: what moved, what did not, and what applies now
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 entered into force on 27 July 2026 and rewrote Article 113 of the EU AI Act six days before the general application date. Most commentary read it as a delay. Half of it was the opposite.
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