EU weighing tighter regulation for OpenAI under Digital Services Act

Source: CNA
Published on: 2026-04-10 16:55

April 10 : The European Commission on Friday said it was analysing whether OpenAI's ChatGPT platform should be considered a large online platform under the rules of the Digital Services Act (DSA), after it reported user numbers above the threshold. "OpenAI has published user numbers for ChatGPT above the 45 million DSA threshold for designation," Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier said. "The Commission services are currently assessing this information." Regnier said Large Language Models could potentially be in the scope of the DSA, but that this had to be analysed on a "case-by-case basis." German newspaper Handelsblatt reported earlier on Friday that ChatGPT would fall under the DSA, meaning it would face tighter regulation. OpenAI said it had published the average number of monthly active recipients for ChatGPT search in line with existing obligations, adding this referred to us...

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