Brazil’s competition authority has taken the brakes off a change that would have shut rival AI assistants out of WhatsApp, issuing interim measures that suspend Meta’s October 2025 Business Solution Terms and preserve third‑party AI access for Brazilian users while a full inquiry proceeds. The...
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...