WhatsApp’s latest wave of product changes and policy revisions marks a decisive moment for the platform — one that simultaneously upgrades the everyday experience for billions of users and reshapes the technical and commercial landscape for businesses and AI providers. The company has rolled out...
The abrupt disappearance of ChatGPT from WhatsApp on January 15, 2026 marks a significant pivot in how conversational AI is distributed — a policy-driven closure of one of the simplest, lowest‑friction ways millions accessed large language model assistants inside a messaging app they already use...
WhatsApp’s latest terms rewrite pulls the plug on third‑party, general‑purpose AI chatbots — including ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot — forcing a mass migration from in‑chat assistants to vendor‑owned apps and authenticated surfaces effective January 15, 2026.
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Meta’s quiet but sweeping rewrite of WhatsApp’s Business Solution terms has forced some of the most visible third‑party assistants — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot — off the platform, with a hard enforcement date of January 15, 2026. The change squaresly targets...
Meta’s tightened WhatsApp Business API rules will force third‑party AI chatbots — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot — off the platform on January 15, 2026, reshaping how millions access conversational AI and accelerating a migration to vendor-owned apps and web surfaces...
Microsoft has confirmed that its Copilot conversational AI will stop working inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, a move the company says is required by recent changes to WhatsApp’s Business Solution rules that bar general-purpose large-language-model chatbots from operating on the platform...
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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