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Microsoft’s Copilot will stop responding inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, after WhatsApp’s owner revised its Business API terms to explicitly bar third‑party, general‑purpose large‑language‑model (LLM) chatbots from operating as primary services through the platform. Background WhatsApp’s...

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stood on a Delhi stage and distilled a provocative metric — “tokens per rupee per watt” — he did more than coin a catchy phrase; he framed a data‑centre–centric lens for how nations might measure their readiness for the AI era. That formula ties three concrete...

Anthropic chief scientist Jared Kaplan has warned that humanity faces “the biggest decision yet”: whether to allow advanced AI systems to train their own successors — a step he says could arrive between 2027 and 2030 and usher in either a beneficial “intelligence explosion” or a loss of human...

A federal judge has barred Google from forcing device makers and partners to distribute or bundle its Gemini generative-AI products as a condition of licensing other Google apps, a remedies decision that extends the court’s earlier finding that Google illegally maintained a search monopoly and...

Meta’s decision to prohibit non‑Meta conversational assistants from operating through WhatsApp’s Business Solution has reshaped the battleground for everyday AI, setting a clear deadline—January 15, 2026—and provoking regulators, enterprises, and developers worldwide to scramble for...

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...

Meta’s latest tweak to WhatsApp’s Business Solution terms will force most third‑party AI chatbots — including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot — off the platform on January 15, 2026, leaving Meta’s own Meta AI as the dominant in‑app assistant for users who want an AI inside WhatsApp. Background...

Meta’s quiet rewrite of WhatsApp’s Business Solution terms is forcing a major redistribution of conversational AI: starting January 15, 2026, third‑party, general‑purpose chatbots that used WhatsApp as a distribution channel will be blocked from the Business API — a move that will remove...

Microsoft’s Copilot will stop responding inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026 — a firm, platform‑level deadline driven by a mid‑October revision to WhatsApp’s Business Solution terms that explicitly bars third‑party, general‑purpose large‑language‑model (LLM) chatbots from using the Business API...

WhatsApp has formally rejected the Italian Competition Authority’s assertion that Meta’s October contractual changes — which bar third‑party, general‑purpose AI chatbots from the WhatsApp Business Solution — amount to an abuse of dominance, even as Rome’s regulator has opened a fast‑track...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot will stop responding on WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, after Meta revised the WhatsApp Business Solution terms to explicitly ban third‑party, general‑purpose AI assistants from using the platform’s Business API — a policy change that reshapes how...

Meta's quiet rewrite of the WhatsApp Business Solution terms that blocks third‑party, general‑purpose AI chatbots has forced major vendors — including Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT — to withdraw those integrations and push users onto vendor-owned apps and web surfaces, with an...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot will be removed from WhatsApp after January 15, 2026, following a revision to WhatsApp’s Business Solution terms that expressly prohibits third‑party, general‑purpose AI chatbots from using the platform as a primary distribution channel. Background...

Microsoft confirmed this week that Copilot will stop working on WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, a direct consequence of revised WhatsApp Business API (platform) rules that bar third‑party large language model (LLM) chatbots from operating through the service. The change forces a simple but...

Microsoft’s decision to pull Copilot off WhatsApp after January 15, 2026, is the latest and most concrete consequence of a broader policy shift by Meta that bars general-purpose large‑language‑model chatbots from using the WhatsApp Business infrastructure — and the move will reshape how...

Microsoft has confirmed that Copilot will be removed from WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, a change Microsoft attributes directly to updates in WhatsApp’s Business Solution terms that ban general‑purpose large‑language‑model (LLM) chatbots from operating as primary services on the platform...

Microsoft has confirmed that its Copilot chatbot will stop responding inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, a direct consequence of WhatsApp’s revised Business API rules that bar general-purpose AI assistants — a change that forces users onto Microsoft’s own Copilot apps, the web, and Windows and...

Microsoft’s decision to pull Copilot and other third‑party AI chatbots out of WhatsApp marks a clear and immediate shift: beginning January 15, 2026, WhatsApp’s Business Solution will no longer be usable as a distribution channel for general‑purpose large‑language‑model assistants, forcing...

Microsoft confirmed this week that its consumer AI assistant Copilot will stop working inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, a direct consequence of WhatsApp’s recently revised Business Solution terms that bar general‑purpose large‑language‑model (LLM) chatbots from operating as a primary service...

Microsoft’s Copilot will stop working inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, after Meta rewrote the WhatsApp Business Solution Terms to bar third‑party, general‑purpose AI assistants from using the Business API — a change that forces Microsoft to move users to Copilot’s native apps, the web, and...