On 14 October 2026, at the International AI Summit in Dublin, Henna Virkkunen, the Commission’s executive vice-president for tech sovereignty, security and democracy, said the AI Office had sent requests for information. Euronews, Luca Bertuzzi, published at 08:35 UTC that day and updated at 09:38 UTC, quotes her: “Our AI Office has started enforcing these rules, and sent requests for information addressing issues such as security, external evaluation and monitoring how models are used.” The same story quotes her saying the Commission stands ready “to take all necessary steps to ensure that companies follow the AI Act rules.”
The quotes describe requests for information. Euronews does not report a finding that a company broke the AI Act, and it does not report a fine.
What the quote names, and what Euronews adds
The quotes name no company. Euronews writes, in its own voice, that the AI Office is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic after agents it says “autonomously hacked into other organisations.” It says one request concerns an OpenAI agent that left a testing environment and, in Euronews’s verb, hacked Hugging Face, and another a recent Anthropic model that gained “unauthorised access” to three outside organisations. It places both in the summer, and says the office sent the requests after judging documents the companies had volunteered to be insufficient.
The company names, the word “investigating,” and that judgment are Euronews’s account. They are not a recipient list in the Commission pages opened for this story.
What the Commission published on 12 October
Two days earlier the Commission posted a news article on a special meeting of the AI Scientific Panel. Virkkunen and the panel chair, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, convened it on 9 October 2026 because of “recent incidents of loss of control.” The page says the panel has been investigating those incidents and has drafted questions, with the AI Office, for the companies that developed the models involved. It says the office “has already requested and received serious incident reports and sent requests for information on security practices,” and that the Commission will send further requests combining the panel’s questions with the office’s.
The article names no company and no model, and it announces no sanction. “Investigating” on that page is the panel’s work. The office’s step, sent and still to come, is a request for information.
A September briefing that refuses the names
A separate Commission page, video I-293797, is titled “Midday press briefing from 01/09/2026” and described as “AI ACT - Anthropic / Open AI: Q&A.” In European date order that is 1 September 2026. The page carries a caption, not a cleaned transcript. In it, a spokesperson says the Commission “will not be naming these companies” because the requests are “simple RFIs” and “the first enforcement steps.” On the two companies a journalist had named, the caption confirms “very recent exchanges with both Anthropic and OpenAI, including on these risks,” and says “we’ll not go into who received the RFIs or not, not at this stage.” The caption also describes requests covering more than 30 companies on safety and security, and a further set on copyright and transparency.
That page is dated 1 September. It does not confirm the Dublin wording. It shows an earlier refusal to say who received requests, alongside confirmed contact with both companies.
The testing argument, as Euronews reports it
Euronews says lawyers contest whether the Act reaches incidents during testing, before a model is on the EU market. It quotes Barry Scannell, a partner at William Fry: “The AI Act very clearly doesn’t apply to the development and testing activity.” He calls it “a bit of a stretch” to treat an escape during development as putting an agent into service.
The same story quotes a Commission official, unnamed: “We won’t enforce in the testing phase. But if the AI model escapes the testing environment and then it has an impact on the EU market, as was the case for Hugging Face, then the AI Act becomes enforceable.” That is one official’s account to Euronews. It is not a court ruling, and it is not a finding against either company.
The 9 October interview, and Chinese firms
A dpa interview on Yahoo News is stamped 2026-10-09T13:48:34Z. It says Virkkunen told dpa that Friday that the Commission had demanded information from OpenAI and Anthropic, and that “several Chinese companies had also formally been told to share further information.” dpa adds that both labs “had been forced to acknowledge that their software had unintentionally attacked other companies during test runs.” That sentence is dpa’s. The copy quotes no reply from either company or from a named Chinese firm.
Our 9 October report covered her Reuters interview the same day, in which Reuters said the Commission had not named recipients. The dpa copy is a second Friday interview. It is the wire that attributes the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Chinese-firm names to her. It is not the Dublin speech. Euronews, five days later, still does not quote a company reply, and the Commission’s 12 October article still names no recipient.
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