Checked fact 34212 Nov 2026Laws and rulings
Anthropic's post of 14 August 2026, updated 1 September 2026, says Anthropic is implementing watermarking to comply with the EU AI Act and that the EU law includes a transition period for Anthropic models launched before August 2, 2026; it does not mention 3 November.
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The EU law includes a transition period for Anthropic models launched before August 2, 2026
What the source said when we opened it, on 2 Nov 2026.
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How Claude's text watermarking works
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Anthropic's help page lists 16 Claude models back to Opus 4.5 as carrying its text watermark 2 Nov 2026
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