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Global AI rules shift from strategy to enforcement
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Fusion42 · 27 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Global AI regulatory frameworks are moving from policy design to active enforcement, with the EU AI Act and South Korea's AI Basic Act now imposing significant financial penalties (€35m or 7% global turnover in EU; 30m won in South Korea) for non-compliance. Telecommunications companies face heightened compliance obligations and rising operational costs as enforcement mechanisms become the critical test of regulatory effectiveness.
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Regulators have stopped writing rules and started enforcing them; if you build AI products in telecom, you now have a grace period that ends when the grace period ends, and your compliance costs just became a line item in your budget that grows faster than your revenue.
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