If your SaaS uses AI and serves EU customers, Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires you to tell users when they interact with AI. The deadline is 2 August 2026. About 54 days from now, unmoved by the AI Omnibus that pushed Annex III high-risk to 2 December 2027 and Annex I embedded-product to 2 August 2028. Article 50 stays on the original date.
Most founders I talk to assume this only applies to large companies. It does not. Article 50 applies to any provider or deployer of an AI system, regardless of company size.
Here is what you actually need to implement, with code you can drop into your product today.
What Article 50 requires
Four categories of AI use trigger transparency obligations:
