The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached political agreement on the AI Act after three days of negotiation. The framework scales obligations to risk: it bans practices such as social scoring, emotion recognition in workplaces and schools, and biometric categorisation using sensitive traits. General-purpose AI models must keep technical documentation and comply with EU copyright law, while high-impact models with systemic risk face additional duties — model evaluation, adversarial testing and reporting of serious incidents. Fines run to 7% of global turnover or 35 million euro. It is the first comprehensive AI regulation anywhere. The deal was struck late on 8 December; both institutions announced it on the 9th.