Airbnb Aims to Placate Paris Regulators With Rental Cap

PARIS—Airbnb Inc. plans to curb rentals of some of its most popular listings in the French capital, expanding its bid to placate regulators in the U.S. and Europe that have assailed the firm and could threaten its growth.

The home-sharing firm said Tuesday it will start automatically capping the number days a year that hosts can rent out dwellings in parts of central Paris—the company’s largest market by listings, with 65,000. That will effectively force hosts to comply with the city’s legal limit on short-term rentals of...