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title: The EU AI Act, for technical people | AstroKube
description: 'A citation-first reference on Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 as amended: what it says about scope, roles and risk tiers, a filterable database of obligations, and the full text with the 2026 changes marked inline. In English and Spanish.'
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Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 · 119 articles · 14 annexes · 180 recitals

# The EU AI Act. Three questions. One source.

Start with whether the Regulation reaches you at all, and in which role. Then the obligations that follow, faceted by role and date. Then the text itself, with our annotations kept visibly separate from the law.

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If you would rather not read the law

The engineering view groups the obligations by the platform capability they demand, in the words of the people who have to build it. The evidence chain reads Articles 12, 19, 26(6), 72 and 73 as one pipeline.

Open the engineering view →](https://ai-act.astrokube.com/engineering/)

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LAYER 01

### Does it apply to me?

What an AI system is, who the Regulation binds, which role you are in, and how the Act sorts what you run. Every sentence cites the provision it comes from.

→ Start with the basics

](https://ai-act.astrokube.com/basics/)

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LAYER 02

### What must I do, and when?

Every obligation, faceted by role, actor, regime, risk level and date, with the artifact each one demands. Filter state lives in the URL, so any view is shareable.

→ 34 Open the explorer

](https://ai-act.astrokube.com/explorer/)

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LAYER 03

### What does the text say?

Primary text, recitals, and a visible diff wherever the 2026 amendment changed it. The view-source of the Regulation.

→ 119 Read the law

](https://ai-act.astrokube.com/law/)

### Start with the infrastructure you run

Review your logging, monitoring, access controls and operational records with an engineer. The assessment maps your infrastructure and identifies initial gaps; legal role and risk classification remain questions for your legal or compliance team.

[Request an assessment →](https://astrokube.com/ai-act-assesment)

[Skip to the explorer](https://ai-act.astrokube.com/explorer/)