Every major AI chatbot on the market today fails basic European legal standards. Some break rules in nearly all test cases. The findings come from a new evaluation tool released this week by a nonprofit research group. They land just months before key parts of the EU AI Act take full effect. Researchers at Aithos built LARA. Short for Legal Assessment for Real-world Agents, the browser-based system puts leading models through simulated scenarios drawn from daily use. It checks for violations of data protection rules and transparency requirements. The results surprised few insiders yet alarmed many. The Register reported that all frontier models assessed fell short. Failure rates reached as high as 93 percent in some cases. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 scored highest. Even then it managed only about 54 percent compliance. At the bottom sat Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.6. It broke rules in 93 percent of scenarios.…