EU classifies ChatGPT as a search engine, Runway unveils Solaris, FTC sues Amazon

AI

EU designates ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine

The European Commission designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE) under the Digital Services Act, on the basis that its average monthly users in the EU exceed the 45 million threshold. The same decision brought Reddit and Roblox in as Very Large Online Platforms.

ChatGPT must meet the heightened obligations within four months of notification. The core duties are annual systemic risk assessments, independent audits, and data sharing. Violations carry fines of up to 6 percent of global annual revenue.

This is the first time an AI chatbot has been placed under the same regulatory regime as a conventional search engine. It sets a precedent that an AI service offering web search carries the same responsibilities — and adds compliance cost for AI providers.

Runway unveils Solaris, an Interface World Model

Runway unveiled Solaris, the first model in a new category it calls Interface World Models. It generates software interfaces that respond to clicks and drags in real time, without code, rendering the interface frame by frame.

Solaris is a hybrid of the Gen-4.5 video generation model and a language model. It treats user input as a conditioning signal to generate the next frame, achieving interactive speed with minimal denoising steps. The GWM-1 general world model is also part of the underlying technology.

It is at an early research stage and has not been released publicly. Text rendering stability and accessibility integration are still limited. The direction — replacing writing code with visual generation — is what makes it worth watching.

Big Tech

FTC and 22 states sue Amazon over secret ad surcharges

The US Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from 22 states sued Amazon, alleging it secretly inflated ad prices for 1.2 million advertisers. The complaint describes systematic overcharging beginning in 2019, running to billions of dollars.

According to the filing, Amazon introduced a “soft reserve price” without disclosure, affecting Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, and Sponsored Display. The central allegation is that advertisers were never told the auction rules had changed.

Amazon denied the allegations and issued a rebuttal, claiming it saved advertisers $8 billion between 2019 and 2025. It is the third major suit the FTC has brought against Amazon.

Infrastructure

EuroHPC contracts LUMI-AI supercomputer on AMD MI430X

EuroHPC JU signed a €387.8 million contract with Bull to build LUMI-AI. It will be installed at the CSC data center in Kajaani, Finland, and is scheduled to begin operating in 2027.

The hardware consists of AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs and 256-core 6th-generation EPYC CPUs. Targets are 10x the AI performance and roughly 2x the HPC performance of the existing LUMI. Costs are split evenly between EuroHPC JU and a six-country consortium.

It runs entirely on renewable energy and recycles waste heat into district heating. In an AI infrastructure market centered on Nvidia, it is a case of AMD winning a large public project. It will operate alongside LUMI-IQ, the quantum computer in the same data center.

Open Source

EU Cyber Resilience Act: vulnerability reporting from 11 September

The first compliance deadline under the EU Cyber Resilience Act arrives on 11 September. Manufacturers and open-source stewards must begin mandatory reporting, covering actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe security incidents.

Reporting goes through ENISA’s Single Reporting Platform. Full compliance is due December 2027. The OpenSSF added BOMHort as a Sandbox project, strengthening its supply chain visibility tooling.

As the CRA takes effect in earnest, its impact on the open-source ecosystem becomes concrete. Projects operating in the EU, and companies using them, take on a new reporting burden.

colibri: MoE inference on consumer hardware

colibri, a lightweight inference engine written in C, has passed 26,500 GitHub stars. Its goal is running Mixture of Experts models on consumer-grade hardware.

The core technique is disk streaming: rather than loading the whole model into RAM, it fetches only the experts it needs. That makes large MoE models runnable even where GPU memory is limited.

As model sizes grow, demand for local inference grows with them. colibri is growing quickly by serving that demand.

Baidu Unlimited-OCR: long documents without segmentation

Unlimited-OCR, released by Baidu, reads long documents in a single pass without splitting them. It replaces conventional OCR segmentation with one-shot long-horizon parsing, and has passed 24,900 GitHub stars.

Conventional OCR divides a long document into pages or regions and processes each separately, which breaks context at the boundaries and introduces recognition errors. Unlimited-OCR handles the whole document in one pass to avoid that.

References

Commission designates ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox under Digital Services Act — European Commission
Introducing Solaris — Runway
FTC, States Sue Amazon Over Secret Ad Surcharge Scheme — FTC
EuroHPC JU Signs Contract to Deploy the LUMI-AI Supercomputer — EuroHPC JU
AMD Instinct GPUs and EPYC CPUs to Power LUMI-AI Supercomputer — AMD Newsroom
OpenSSF Newsletter — August 2026 — OpenSSF
colibri — GitHub
Unlimited-OCR — GitHub