The EU AI Act reaches your non-EU software team, and the delay doesn't save you
Headquarters outside the EU does not put you outside the EU AI Act. Under Article 2(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the Act reaches your team the moment your AI system's output is used in the Union. The widely reported 2027 delay postpones only the heavy high-risk track. The duties that need engineering, GPAI, Article 50 transparency and machine-readable marking, and logging, are live or due in August 2026.