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August 2026 — 02 pulses
The EU AI Act's transparency duties become applicable
From 2 August 2026, providers must disclose AI interaction and mark synthetic media, and deployers must tell people when emotion recognition or biometric categorisation is in use.
Gemini Robotics 2 takes Google's VLA to whole-body control
One model now walks, crouches and manipulates in a single task, drives Apptronik Apollo 2 humanoids, and adds collaboration between different robot types.