Mistral has launched its largest model yet and says it beats every open-weight rival from the US and Europe, though its own weights are still three weeks away. OpenAI, meanwhile, will watermark ChatGPT's text in the EU to satisfy the AI Act, and an Italian analysis warns that the detection behind such labels risks mistaking human writing for a machine's.
Brussels tightened its grip on ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox this week while quietly rewriting parts of its own privacy rulebook. Underneath the regulatory noise, Europe's sovereignty ambitions kept colliding with market realities, from Italian cloud tenders that reward US hyperscalers to Nvidia's purchase of a French AI icon.
The European Commission has designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, the first time an AI chatbot has been slotted into that legal box, alongside Reddit and Roblox as very large online platforms. All three now have a four-month window, running out around January 2027, to show they can contain systemic risk, the same day the Netherlands published exactly the kind of infrastructure alternative that rulebook was always meant to protect.