AI Deadline | Thursday 2 July 2026
For founders and operators in AI | USA · UK · EU
This week: a 20-day window to lock in legal cover before the EU's big transparency deadline lands, the FCA's Mills Review dropping very soon, and Brussels quietly buying founders more time to argue their way out of high-risk classification.
Plus, the In Focus piece on why the AI Act's watermarking rule asks companies to do something no technology on the market can actually do yet, and what that means if you're small and don't have a compliance team to hide behind.

