Microsoft confirmed this week that its consumer-facing AI assistant Copilot will be removed from WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, a direct consequence of a WhatsApp Business API policy rewrite that bars third‑party, general‑purpose large‑language‑model (LLM) chatbots from operating through the...
Microsoft’s decision to pull Copilot off WhatsApp is the latest and most visible sign that the era of distributing full‑featured large language model (LLM) assistants inside third‑party messaging platforms is colliding with platform policy, infrastructure limits, and emerging regulatory caution...
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