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
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Microsoft’s new MAI family—MAI‑1‑preview and MAI‑Voice‑1—marks a deliberate pivot from dependency to orchestration: Microsoft is building first‑party foundation models tuned for product speed, cost and audio-first experiences while continuing to route high‑capability workloads to external...
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Microsoft’s announcement that it has deployed two first‑party models — MAI‑Voice‑1 for speech generation and MAI‑1‑preview as a consumer‑focused foundation model — marks a deliberate strategic shift toward productized, in‑house AI and a clear attempt to reduce operational dependence on...
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The announcement from Microsoft Build 2025 that Meta’s Llama herd of models will soon become first-party offerings on Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry represents a pivotal moment in the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. For years, the competitive race among AI...
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