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...
Topaz Labs’ December Realism Update is a sweeping, Studio‑wide release that delivers more than 20 new models, refinements, and workflow features across Bloom, Topaz Photo, Topaz Gigapixel, Topaz Video, Astra, and the Enterprise API — all explicitly engineered to push AI enhancement toward...
Microsoft’s Copilot will stop replying in WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, after Meta tightened the rules for the WhatsApp Business API and explicitly barred general‑purpose AI chat assistants from using the platform as a distribution channel. Background
Since late 2024, major AI providers...
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 will no longer host third‑party general‑purpose AI chatbots — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot — via its Business Solution API after January 15, 2026, following a targeted update to WhatsApp’s Business Solution Terms that explicitly bars “AI Providers” from using the...
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 has confirmed that Copilot — its consumer-facing AI assistant — will be removed from WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, a direct consequence of an October policy revision to the WhatsApp Business Solution that disallows general-purpose LLM‑based chatbots from using the Business API as a...
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 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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