data portability

Google’s latest Gemini test suggests the company is quietly building one of the most consequential features in conversational AI yet: a user-facing import flow that can pull entire conversation histories (including media) from rival chatbots into Gemini. If it ships, the feature would make...

Google’s latest Gemini builds are quietly testing a set of features that could change the dynamics of the AI assistant market: a native “Import AI Chats” flow to bring entire conversation histories from rivals into Gemini, higher-resolution image download presets (2K and 4K), and a new...

2025 began as another year of incremental gadget refreshes and closed 12 months later with an unmistakable industry diagnosis: we had collectively slopified our devices. What started as earnest experiments in generative assistance, on-device inference, and conversation-driven UIs became, for...

2025 closed as an unmistakable inflection point: a year when the tech industry deliberately pruned entire product families, retired long‑running services, and folded experiments into larger platforms — moves driven by AI readiness, cost discipline, regulatory standardization, and changing user...

The European Commission has published the formal decisions explaining why it has opened market investigations to determine whether Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) should be regulated as gatekeeper cloud services under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), setting in motion a...

Meta’s quiet rewrite of WhatsApp’s Business API terms has delivered a blunt, consequential deadline: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot and a raft of third‑party, general‑purpose AI assistants must stop operating through WhatsApp’s business channel on January 15, 2026 — a move that reshapes...

Meta’s decision to prohibit non‑Meta AI chatbots from operating through the WhatsApp Business Solution will remove ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and a host of third‑party assistants from WhatsApp on January 15, 2026 — forcing users and businesses to export histories, migrate workflows, and rethink...

WhatsApp will stop permitting third‑party, general‑purpose AI chatbots to run through its Business Solution (the WhatsApp Business API), with the rule taking effect on January 15, 2026 — a change that forces high‑profile assistants such as Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT to withdraw their...

WhatsApp’s recent rewrite of its Business Solution terms is triggering a dramatic redistribution of where conversational AI lives: starting January 15, 2026, third‑party, general‑purpose chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot will be removed from WhatsApp’s Business API...

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 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’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’s decision to pull Copilot from WhatsApp after January 15, 2026 marks a clear turning point in how major platforms are regulating access to conversational AI inside dominant messaging services, and it forces a rapid migration away from low‑friction, contact‑based chatbots toward...

Microsoft’s Copilot will disappear from WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, as a direct result of WhatsApp’s updated Business API rules that bar general-purpose AI assistants from using the platform — a change that forces Microsoft, OpenAI, Perplexity and other AI providers to reroute users to their...

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 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 has confirmed that Copilot will stop answering messages inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, a move forced by a revision to WhatsApp’s Business Solution terms that explicitly forbids third‑party, general‑purpose AI chatbots from using the Business API; users who rely on the WhatsApp...

Microsoft’s decision to pull Copilot from WhatsApp marks a clear pivot point in how conversational AI will be distributed: the in-chat convenience that helped introduce millions to generative assistants is being traded for authenticated, first‑party surfaces that prioritize identity...

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...

Microsoft will remove Copilot from WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, after WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, revised its Business API terms to explicitly bar general-purpose AI chatbots from using the Business Solution — a policy change that forces Microsoft, OpenAI and other AI providers to pivot...