EU Weighs Restricting Social Media and AI Chatbots for Under-15s

The notable part is that chatbots are being grouped with social platforms as a category of concern rather than treated as a separate product question. That framing matters for AI developers and platform operators whose EU compliance and product design could converge under one age-gating regime, and for younger users who may lose access to tools now used for schoolwork and everyday queries. No text or timeline exists yet, so the open question is whether chatbots remain bundled into the same restrictions once the proposal moves forward.