The European Commission on Monday placed ChatGPT in the strictest tier of the Digital Services Act (DSA), the European Union’s rulebook for online platforms. Anthropic’s Claude was left out.<\/p>\n
Regulators classed ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine, with Reddit and Roblox named Very Large Online Platforms. Claude escaped because its declared European user base sits below the legal cut-off.<\/p>\n
Why the DSA Designation Turns on Raw User Counts<\/p>\n
Designation is a size test, not a safety verdict. The trigger is 45 million average monthly users in the European Union, and companies declare their own figures before the Commission acts.<\/p>\n
ChatGPT’s search function reported 159.1 million, roughly 3.5 times the threshold. Reddit declared 57.2 million. Roblox cleared the bar by 1.6 million, the narrowest margin of the three.<\/p>\n
The meter runs both ways. The Commission stripped Stripchat of its designation in May 2025, after the adult platform’s audience fell back under the line.<\/p>\n
“…will not hesitate to designate any platform that meets the threshold for enhanced supervision under the Digital Services Act,” said Henna Virkkunen, the European Union’s Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy.<\/p>\n
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Why Anthropic’s Claude Stayed Below the 45 Million Line<\/p>\n
Anthropic publishes its own count, a disclosure the DSA demands at least twice a year. For the six months ending 31 October 2025, it concluded that Claude’s European recipients fell well below the threshold.<\/p>\n
The exact figure stayed private, and that snapshot is now ten months old. A newer one is already due, and Anthropic has since pitched investors on a record public listing.<\/p>\n
The designated three have four months to comply, putting the deadline in January 2027. They must then assess systemic risks covering illegal content, minors, mental well-being and elections, and open their systems to audits.<\/p>\n
Enforcement is no longer theoretical, considering the Commission fined X (formerly Twittter) 120 million euros in December 2025. This was the first non-compliance decision under the law, which allows penalties up to 6% of global turnover.<\/p>\n
Claude’s exemption rests on scale alone. Anthropic already faces a suit over training data, and its next European filing decides whether the heaviest DSA chapter follows.<\/p>\n
Read the Original story EU Targets ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox. Why Was Anthropic’s Claude Left Out?<\/a> by Lockridge Okoth at beincrypto.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Commission on Monday placed ChatGPT in the strictest tier of the Digital Services Act (DSA), the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,3154,24400,182,36978,76312,13931,6861,8796,23757,76461,76460],"class_list":["post-157021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-anthropic-claude","tag-anthropics-claude","tag-claude","tag-commission","tag-dsa","tag-european","tag-european-commission","tag-reddit","tag-roblox","tag-roblox-as-very-large-online-platforms","tag-roblox-with-new-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}