{
  "id": 8119466,
  "title": "The EU AI Act's logging rule moved to December 2027. The logs did not get easier.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/the-eu-ai-acts-logging-rule-moved-to-december-2027-the-logs-did-not",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-17T22:23:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/dogrucanemekalt/the-eu-ai-acts-logging-rule-moved-to-december-2027-the-logs-did-not-get-easier-2eb8"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The EU AI Act's logging rule has been moved to December 2027 for stand-alone systems in Annex III and August 2028 for AI integrated into regulated products. High-risk AI systems are required to automatically record events throughout their lifetime, allowing for tracing risky situations, supporting post-market monitoring, and tracking system operation. Most agent stacks log, but few maintain records that include who asked, the prompt, tool call details, and the connection between the two. Verax is an open-source MCP server that addresses these gaps by sitting between an agent and its tools, enforcing policy gates, and leaving signed decision records before executing any call. It also maintains an effect row that is reconciled against the record after execution. The ledger is kept on the machine running the body, ensuring data ownership and integrity. However, Verax does not provide separate witnesses or tenant boundaries, and payload data remains in plaintext. The system is currently free to install and can be tried by running \"npm install -g @verax-ai/body\".",
  "summary": "The Digital Omnibus on AI (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744) was published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026 and entered into force three days later. The obligations for high-risk AI systems, including record-keeping, now apply from 2 December 2027 for the stand-alone systems in Annex III and from 2 August 2028 for AI built into regulated products. If you read a post this summer that said \"August…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}