AI Law Deadline Calendar: Subscribe Once, Stay Current

0:00Why AI law deadlines keep moving

Welcome! In 2026, the EU moved its own AI Act dates. Did your calendar move too? AI Governance Chain publishes a free AI law deadline calendar: 300 dated events from 17 regime files, in one feed that updates when dates change.

Quick note: this is my AI avatar. I write and approve everything it says, and every source is in the description. I am Mathieu K. Gouanou, a consultant based in Geneva, Switzerland, with 20+ years in organizational transformation. I write the AI Governance Chain newsletter on LinkedIn, and I am the founder of aigovernancechain.com. this is Season 1, Episode 4.

0:38The Digital Omnibus moved the dates

Here's what happened. The EU AI Act originally set 2 August 2026 for its Annex III high-risk rules, and 2 August 2027 for high-risk AI inside regulated products. Then the Digital Omnibus on AI entered into force on 27 July 2026.

It moved Annex III high-risk rules to 2 December 2027, and the product rules to 2 August 2028. If your plan was a PDF from last year, it was wrong overnight. And that's one regime. The Atlas tracks 17 regime files, across Europe, the Americas and Asia. Dates move. Tracking them by hand doesn't scale.

1:18What the deadline calendar is

Here's the definition. The AI Governance Chain deadline calendar is a free, subscribable feed of dated AI-law events, each linked to its legal source, that updates when the dates move.

Each event comes from the Obligation Atlas, with an ID, a citation and a link to the official text. On the chain, this is the LAW link, with a clock attached, and it points straight to the OBLIGATION behind each date.

1:41Subscribe in 3 steps

Step 1: copy one address: aigovernancechain.com/deadlines.ics. Step 2: in Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar, choose add calendar from URL, and paste it. Step 3: there is no step 3. When a date moves in the Atlas, it moves in your calendar.

Only care about one region? There are per-regime feeds in the calendar folder on GitHub. Prefer a list? DEADLINES.md has every date in one table. And in the terminal, aigovchain deadlines shows what's coming. As of 4 November 2026, 16 dates fall in the next 90 days.

2:19Dates to watch: 2026 and 2027

Here are a few. 13 November 2026: India's DPDP Consent Manager phase begins. 2 December 2026: in the EU, generative systems placed on the market before 2 August 2026 must mark their outputs in a machine-readable way, and new bans on AI-generated intimate content without consent and on child sexual abuse material apply.

1 January 2027: a wave of US state rules, in California, Colorado, Illinois and New York. And 22 January 2027 in South Korea is the earliest possible enforcement date under the AI Basic Act, after a minimum one-year grace period. Earliest, not a deadline. The calendar says so, because precision matters more than drama.

Further out: 1 March 2027 in Vietnam, transition compliance for existing AI systems outside healthcare, education and finance. 13 May 2027 in India, most of the DPDP Act and Rules duties. And 2 December 2027, the new date for the EU's Annex III high-risk rules.

3:30Turn a date into an action

A date alone isn't a plan. Here's how to use it. When an event lands within the next 180 days, open the obligation behind it and ask: do we have the control? Your AI_GOVERNANCE.md does this for you. Check 14 warns when an obligation in scope starts within 180 days and its controls are missing. So the calendar tells you what's coming, and the file tells you whether you're ready.

3:54Who the calendar is for

Compliance and legal teams who track many countries at once. Product managers planning launches, who need to know which rules land before go-live. Public bodies with reporting dates, like New York State's first AI inventory, due by 30 December 2026. And anyone who has ever been surprised by a date that moved.

4:12Limits: draft dates, real sources

The limits. Every date is draft data. Regime files stay draft-unreviewed until a named expert reviewer signs them off. Each event links to the official source, so check it before you act. Some dates are flagged as earliest, because the law doesn't fix them yet. This is governance guidance, not legal advice in any jurisdiction. It's a faster way to know what to ask your lawyer, and when.

4:33Your next step

Your one action: subscribe to the calendar today. The link is in the description.

Next, the Season 1 finale. What if every AI agent your company builds could ask these questions itself, live, without copying a single file?

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