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New · Vol. 2
THE EU AI ACT ARTICLE BY ARTICLE REGULATION (EU) 2024/1689 ANNOTATED REFERENCE · 2026 O. PINZARU · A. KIMMIG © COPYRIGHT PROTECTED
EU AI Act Prohibited Practices High-Risk Systems GPAI Models Enforcement
Annotated Reference · 113 Articles, 13 Chapters

The EU AI Act: Article by Article

The complete article-by-article decode of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — the world's first comprehensive, binding AI law. Every one of its 113 articles translated into plain language: what it says, who it applies to, what it requires, and the deadline that governs it. Written from the primary text and current to June 2026.

  • All 113 articles across 13 chapters — plain-English, obligation by obligation
  • Article 5's eight prohibited practices — in force since February 2, 2025
  • The August 2, 2026 high-risk deadline — what it covers and who must comply
  • GPAI and systemic-risk model obligations under the August 2025 rules
  • €35M / 7% of global turnover — the enforcement and penalty tiers decoded
JP KR CN IN SG AU AI COMPLIANCE IN ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL EDITION · 2026 O. PINZARU · A. KIMMIG © COPYRIGHT PROTECTED
South Korea Singapore ISO 42001 EU AI Act NIST
Asia-Pacific Edition · 80+ Pages

AI Compliance in Asia-Pacific 2026

The complete jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guide to AI compliance across the Asia-Pacific region — South Korea, Singapore, Japan, China, India, and Australia. Includes a 90-day multi-jurisdiction sprint plan.

  • South Korea AI Basic Act — in force January 22, 2026
  • Singapore AI Verify, MAIGF and Agentic AI Framework
  • China CAC enforcement — strictest penalties globally
  • Japan AI Promotion Act and APPI obligations
  • 90-day APAC multi-jurisdiction compliance sprint
New · Vol. 3
THE AGENTIC AI GOVERNANCE HANDBOOK ENTERPRISE EDITION · 2026 O. PINZARU · A. KIMMIG © COPYRIGHT PROTECTED
Agentic AI Singapore MAIGF EU AI Act NIST AI RMF ISO 42001
Enterprise Edition · 12 Chapters + Appendix

The Agentic AI Governance Handbook

The first definitive framework for governing AI that acts on its own — calling tools, executing transactions and coordinating other agents without a human approving each step. Grounded in Singapore's landmark Agentic AI Framework (January 2026), the WEF foundations, and the Agentic Operating Model.

  • $139B agentic AI market by 2034 — why governance cannot wait
  • Agent Identity Cards per Singapore's January 2026 standard
  • Five-tier autonomy taxonomy with requirements at each level
  • HITL / HOTL / HOOTL and the 60-second meaningful-oversight test
  • Six-phase roadmap, Agent Risk Register and Decision Rights Matrix
New · Vol. 4
AI IN HEALTHCARE THE COMPLIANCE COMMAND CENTER HEALTHCARE EDITION · 2026 O. PINZARU · A. KIMMIG © COPYRIGHT PROTECTED
FDA HIPAA EU AI Act & MDR ISO 42001 US State Laws
Healthcare Edition · 14 Chapters + Appendix

AI in Healthcare: The Compliance Command Center

The most comprehensive single-volume guide to healthcare AI compliance — synthesizing HIPAA, HITECH, FDA clinical-decision-support and SaMD guidance, 21 CFR Part 11, the EU AI Act, EU MDR and ISO 42001 into one usable framework. Written from primary sources and current to June 2026.

  • $7.4M average breach cost and HHS OCR's active enforcement posture
  • 14-framework regulatory stack mapped to a single system
  • FDA CDS four-part test with six worked device / non-device examples
  • FDA AI/ML SaMD 2026 guidance — TPLC, PCCP, GMLP and QMSR
  • AI-specific BAA clause library and 18-item compliance checklist
New · Vol. 7
PHYSICAL AI & INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS PHYSICAL AI EDITION · 2026 O. PINZARU · A. KIMMIG © COPYRIGHT PROTECTED
Physical AI ISO 10218 EU Machinery Regulation EU AI Act Annex I Industrial Robotics
Physical AI Edition · 2026

Physical AI & Industrial Robotics Compliance

How embodied and industrial AI systems are regulated where software meets the physical world. As industrial robots and embodied AI systems move from controlled environments into spaces shared with human workers, compliance now spans two parallel obligations: AI-specific risk management and established physical safety standards. This volume maps the current global standards landscape for physical and embodied AI.

  • ISO 10218:2025 and the developing ISO 25785-1 fall-safety standard for dynamically stable robots
  • EU AI Act Annex I high-risk classification for autonomous robots alongside the EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230
  • Dual compliance burden: AI system requirements and physical safety case requirements apply in parallel, neither exempting the other
  • Structured risk assessment framework for industrial AI systems operating near human workers
The Publication Catalog · Arriving Throughout 2026 & 2027

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The full AxiLayer AI Intelligence Series — practitioner-grade references organized across eleven role-based series, written by people who spend their working days inside AI compliance engagements. Every title below is published, in final preparation, or actively in development, and built from primary regulatory sources. As each one releases it appears inside the secure online reader — included with All-Access, never sold as a download.

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Series A
CEO & Board Advisory

Board-level AI accountability, risk appetite, investment governance, and executive liability.

A-1Upcoming

The AI Accountability Mandate

What Every Board Director Must Own, Approve, and Attest Before the Regulators Arrive.

A-2Upcoming

AI Investment Decisions That Hold Up to Scrutiny

The CEO's Framework for Capital Allocation, Vendor Selection, and ROI Accountability in the Age of Regulated AI.

A-3Upcoming

Named and Liable

How Regulators Are Holding Individual Executives Accountable for AI Failures — and How to Lead so That Never Happens to You.

Series B
CAIO & AI Governance

AI inventory, risk classification, policy design, the NIST AI RMF GOVERN function, and the full AI Office operating model.

B-1Upcoming

The AI Governance Operating Manual

Inventory, Risk Classification, Policy Design, and Evidence Architecture for the Chief AI Officer.

B-2Upcoming

AI Risk Classification That Actually Works

How to Build and Defend a Risk Tier Framework That Satisfies the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, and Internal Audit Simultaneously.

B-3Upcoming

The CAIO Playbook

Building the AI Office From Zero: Staffing, Governance Cadence, Audit Evidence, and the Controls Map Regulators Expect to See.

Series C
CTO & Engineering Advisory

Architecture, MLOps, LLMOps, model evaluation, data governance, and the AI development lifecycle for regulated environments.

C-1Upcoming

Building AI Systems That Pass the Audit

Architecture, MLOps, and LLMOps Decisions That Satisfy the EU AI Act Before the Auditor Walks In.

C-2Upcoming

The AI Development Lifecycle for Regulated Environments

From Model Card to Technical Documentation: What Engineering Teams Must Build, Log, and Prove at Every Stage.

C-3Upcoming

Agentic Systems Under Regulation

How to Architect, Deploy, and Govern Multi-Agent AI Without Violating the Rules Already in Force.

Series D
CISO & Security

AI threat modeling, model and agent supply-chain risk, shadow AI, prompt injection, and EU AI Act cybersecurity controls.

D-1Upcoming

The AI Threat Landscape

Model Poisoning, Prompt Injection, Shadow AI, and the Cybersecurity Controls the EU AI Act Makes Mandatory Before Deployment.

D-2Upcoming

Shadow AI: The Security Risk Nobody Is Measuring

How Unregistered AI Tools Are Bypassing Your Controls — and the Detection, Governance, and Response Program to Stop Them.

D-3Upcoming

Securing the AI Supply Chain

Model and Agent Provenance, Third-Party AI Risk, and the Vendor Security Assessment Program Regulators Now Expect.

D-4Upcoming

Synthetic Media & Identity Assurance

Detecting AI-Generated Voice, Video, and Identity Impersonation Used in Enterprise Social Engineering, and the Assurance Program to Contain It.

Series E
CFO & Finance

AI capital investment, ROI tracking, shadow AI costs, procurement governance, and board-ready AI risk reporting.

E-1Upcoming

The CFO's Guide to AI Spend That Actually Delivers

Capital Investment Rigor, ROI Tracking, and the Financial Governance Model for Enterprise AI Programs.

E-2Upcoming

AI Risk Reporting for the Board and the Auditor

How to Quantify AI Exposure, Build Board-Ready Dashboards, and Satisfy the Financial Statement Implications of AI Non-Compliance.

E-3Upcoming

Shadow AI Costs: The Budget Leak You Cannot See

How to Detect, Quantify, and Govern the AI Spend That Is Bypassing Your Procurement Process Right Now.

Series F
CHRO & People

Workforce AI governance, bias testing, human oversight, employee disclosure, and change management.

F-1Upcoming

The Human in the Loop Is Not Enough

What Meaningful Human Oversight of Workforce AI Actually Requires — and the Legal Exposure When It Fails.

F-2Upcoming

Fair by Design

Bias Testing, Transparency, and the Workforce AI Governance Program That Satisfies Regulators, Protects Employees, and Holds Up in Court.

F-3Upcoming

Leading the AI Transition

Change Management, Employee Communication, and the People Governance Program for Organizations Deploying AI at Scale.

Series G
CDO & Data

Data governance, lineage, quality, and provenance controls that make AI systems defensible, explainable, and audit-ready.

G-1Upcoming

Data That Defends Itself

Lineage, Quality, Provenance, and the Data Governance Architecture That Makes AI Systems Explainable, Auditable, and Legally Defensible.

G-2Upcoming

The Training Data Problem

How to Source, Assess, Document, and Defend the Data Behind Every High-Risk AI System You Deploy.

G-3Upcoming

Explainability Is a Data Problem

How Data Architecture Decisions Made Upstream Determine Whether AI Outputs Can Be Explained Downstream.

Series H
Legal, Compliance & Risk

Global frameworks: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, U.S. state laws, APAC, and enforcement intelligence.

H-1Upcoming

The Global AI Compliance Atlas

EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, Colorado, Texas TRAIGA, Utah, California, NYC LL 144, UK, Canada, China, Japan, and OECD — Mapped and Integrated.

H-2Upcoming

U.S. State AI Law: The Compliance Field Guide

Colorado AI Act, Texas TRAIGA, Utah AI Policy Act, California Frontier AI Transparency, NYC Local Law 144 — Every State Law Decoded.

H-3Upcoming

ISO/IEC 42001 Implementation Guide

Building, Certifying, and Maintaining the AI Management System That Regulators, Clients, and Counterparties Are Now Requiring as Standard.

H-4Upcoming

The AI Regulatory Enforcement Dossier

What Enforcement Actions Against AI Systems Tell Us About What Regulators Are Actually Testing For.

H-5Upcoming

China, Japan, and the APAC AI Compliance Landscape

China Generative AI Rules, Japan AI Guidelines, Singapore MAS FEAT, and the OECD AI Principles Decoded.

Series I
AI and the Workforce

Jobs, roles, and the human cost of automation — for CHROs, people leaders, executives, policymakers, and anyone navigating the human side of the AI transition.

I-1Upcoming

When the Role Changes Overnight

How AI Is Restructuring Jobs, Teams, and Skill Requirements Faster Than Organizations Can Reskill — and the Governance Program That Manages It Responsibly.

I-2Upcoming

The Reskilling Imperative

How to Design, Fund, and Execute an AI Workforce Transition Program That Retains Talent, Satisfies Regulators, and Actually Works.

I-3Upcoming

Automation with Dignity

The Ethical, Legal, and Governance Framework for Deploying AI That Displaces, Augments, or Redesigns Human Work.

I-4Upcoming

The New Org Chart

How AI Is Changing the Structure of Organizations, the Shape of Leadership, and the Skills That Get People to the Top.

I-5Upcoming

What Stays Human

The Skills, Roles, and Judgment Calls That AI Cannot Automate — and How to Build Organizations That Protect and Reward Them.

Series J
The Global AI Regulatory Refresh

Annual and mid-cycle updates: what changed, what it means operationally, and what compliance programs must do in response.

J-1Hot Now

The 2026 AI Regulatory Refresh

Every Major Regulatory Development Across 30 Jurisdictions — What Changed, What It Means, and What Your Compliance Program Must Do Before Year-End.

J-2Upcoming

After the EU AI Act: The Second Wave

How the EU AI Act Is Influencing National Legislation Worldwide — and the Common Compliance Architecture That Works Across All of It.

J-3Upcoming

The Regulatory Divergence Problem

Where the U.S., EU, UK, China, and APAC AI Frameworks Conflict — and How to Build a Compliance Program That Survives All of Them.

J-4Upcoming

Enforcement: The Real Regulatory Signal

A Jurisdiction-by-Jurisdiction Analysis of AI Enforcement Actions, Regulatory Priorities, and What They Tell You About Where the Risk Actually Is.

Series K
What Is Coming

AI and its regulation in the next three to five years — strategic foresight for executives, policymakers, investors, and compliance leaders planning beyond the immediate deadline cycle.

K-1Upcoming

The AI Governance Horizon: 2027 to 2030

What AI Will Be Capable of, What Regulators Will Require, and What Organizations Must Build Now to Be Ready.

K-2Upcoming

Governing AI You Cannot Fully Understand

The Governance, Accountability, and Control Frameworks for the Era of Highly Capable AI Systems — Before Those Systems Arrive.

K-3Upcoming

The AI Accountability Endgame

How Individual, Corporate, and Governmental Accountability for AI Decisions Will Be Assigned, Contested, and Enforced Over the Next Decade.

K-4Upcoming

Autonomous Systems and the Limits of Human Oversight

When AI Makes Decisions Faster Than Humans Can Review Them — the Technical, Legal, and Ethical Architecture for What Comes Next.

K-5Upcoming

The Competitive Advantage of Compliance

How Organizations That Build Genuine AI Governance Now Will Outcompete Those That Treat It as a Tax — and the Evidence Already Emerging That This Is True.

K-6Upcoming

After AGI: The Governance Questions Nobody Has Answered Yet

If AI Systems Become Capable of Performing Most Cognitive Tasks — What Does Governance, Accountability, and Human Oversight Even Mean?

What's Inside

Every Chapter, Every Jurisdiction

The full table of contents of all five volumes — written from primary regulatory sources and current to June 2026.

The AI Compliance Command Center

Global Edition · 10 Chapters + Appendix
  • 01The Global AI Compliance Landscape — why every organization needs a strategy
  • 02The Foundational Frameworks — ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, ISO 23894
  • 03Europe (EU / UK) — full EU AI Act analysis, the world's strictest law
  • 04North America — NIST AI RMF, Colorado SB 189, FedRAMP, state patchwork
  • 05Asia-Pacific — South Korea, Singapore, Japan, China, India, Australia
  • 06Latin America — Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Argentina
  • 07Middle East & Africa — UAE, Saudi Arabia, African Union strategy
  • 08The Eight Dimensions of AI Compliance — what auditors actually assess
  • 09Building Your Compliance Program — the AxiLayer readiness methodology
  • 10The Independent Certification Advantage
  • AAppendix — global penalty reference, framework crosswalk, glossary

AI Compliance in Asia-Pacific

Regional Edition · Jurisdiction by Jurisdiction
  • 01APAC at a Glance — a regulatory landscape unlike any other
  • 02South Korea — the AI Basic Act, in force January 22, 2026
  • 03Singapore — AI Verify, MAIGF and the 2026 Agentic AI Framework
  • 04China — CAC generative-AI rules, the world's strictest enforcer
  • 05Japan — the AI Promotion Act and APPI obligations
  • 06India — MeitY AI guidelines and the DPDP Act
  • 07Australia — safety-focused, sector-led governance
  • 08Emerging Markets — Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan
  • 09The 90-Day APAC Sprint — an integrated multi-jurisdiction plan

The Agentic AI Governance Handbook

Enterprise Edition · 12 Chapters + Appendix
  • 01The Agentic Revolution — what changed and why traditional governance fails
  • 02Anatomy of an AI Agent — perception, memory, tools, multi-agent coordination
  • 03The Governance Gap — why EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF were not built for agents
  • 04The Agentic Operating Model — three layers of enterprise governance
  • 05Agent Identity and Access Control — identity cards, least privilege, authentication
  • 06Human Oversight in an Agentic World — HITL, HOTL, HOOTL, meaningful oversight
  • 07Multi-Agent Coordination Governance — trust, delegation chains, liability
  • 08Risk Classification — the five-tier autonomy taxonomy
  • 09Technical Safeguards — prompt injection, data poisoning, supply chain, containment
  • 10Regulatory Application — EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, Singapore MAIGF
  • 11Building Your Governance Program — six-phase implementation roadmap
  • 12Metrics and Continuous Control — behavioral, process, and outcome metrics
  • AAppendix — Agent Risk Register, Decision Rights Matrix, glossary

AI in Healthcare: The Compliance Command Center

Healthcare Edition · 14 Chapters + Appendix
  • 01The Healthcare AI Compliance Crisis — why now and what is at stake
  • 02The Complete Regulatory Stack — all 14 frameworks, one system
  • 03HIPAA and HITECH — the foundation that AI inherits
  • 04FDA Clinical Decision Support — the device / non-device boundary
  • 05FDA AI/ML SaMD — the 2026 guidance landscape (TPLC, PCCP, GMLP)
  • 0621 CFR Part 11 — electronic records in AI-assisted regulated environments
  • 07The EU AI Act in Healthcare — high-risk classification and device intersection
  • 08EU Medical Device Regulation — AI-enabled devices and CE marking
  • 09ISO 42001 for Healthcare — AI management system implementation
  • 10US State AI Laws in Healthcare — Colorado, California, NYC, Texas, Washington
  • 11Business Associate Agreements for AI Vendors — the contract that governs everything
  • 12The Joint Commission-CHAI — seven governance domains
  • 13Building Your Healthcare AI Governance Program — the six-phase roadmap
  • 14The Healthcare AI Compliance Audit — what independent assessors examine
  • AAppendix — 18-item compliance checklist, BAA clause library, glossary

The Board & C-Suite AI Governance Playbook

Board & C-Suite Edition · 2026
  • 01Foreword — the call you do not want to receive
  • 02The Governance Emergency — why AI is now a board-level duty
  • 03Personal Accountability — CEO, board, General Counsel and CAIO roles
  • 04The Questions Every Board Must Ask — and why each one matters
  • 05The Regulatory Landscape — jurisdiction, framework and director exposure
  • 06Investor & Shareholder Expectations — governance as a value driver
  • 07AI Governance Structures — committees, reporting lines, decision rights
  • 08When AI Goes Wrong — incident response and the General Counsel
  • 09A Culture of Responsible AI — the culture test for leadership
  • 10The 90-Day Board AI Governance Sprint — a practical action plan
The Authors

Written by the Founders

The series is authored by the founding partners of AxiLayer AI, Inc. — an independent body with zero commercial relationships with any AI vendor or platform. The technical volumes are written by Ovi Pinzaru; the law, regulation and compliance volumes are co-authored by Ovi Pinzaru and Anisa Kimmig.

Ovi Pinzaru
Chief Executive Officer · AxiLayer AI, Inc.

Co-founder of AxiLayer AI and architect of its structural-independence model. He leads the firm's research into global AI regulation and its eight-dimension independent audit methodology, and is the author of the series' technical volumes.

Anisa Kimmig
Chief Financial Officer · AxiLayer AI, Inc.

Co-founder of AxiLayer AI, focused on the commercial and governance frameworks that make independent certification credible to enterprise procurement and insurance underwriters. She co-authors the series' law, regulation and compliance volumes with Ovi Pinzaru.

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