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Italy’s competition watchdog has ordered Meta to reopen WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots, suspending new Business API terms that would have effectively barred general‑purpose assistants from the messaging platform while an abuse‑of‑dominance probe continues. Background / Overview The decision...

WhatsApp’s new Status mention alerts can feel like a bug: you mute a group or stash it in Archive and still get that jarring “X mentioned your group privately in a status” ping. That is not a malfunction — it’s how WhatsApp deliberately handles Status mentions — but there are practical...

Italy’s competition authority has ordered Meta to pause parts of its new WhatsApp Business Solution rules that would have barred rival AI chatbots from operating on the messaging platform, an interim decision that crystallizes a wider regulatory struggle over platform control, AI distribution...

Italy’s competition authority has ordered Meta to suspend the WhatsApp Business Solution Terms that would have barred rival, general‑purpose AI chatbots from the messaging platform, legally pausing the platform’s planned January 15, 2026 enforcement and buying time for regulators to decide...

Italy’s competition authority has ordered Meta to suspend WhatsApp’s new Business Solution Terms that would have excluded rival generative AI chatbots from operating on the platform, imposing interim measures while it conducts a full antitrust investigation into whether WhatsApp’s integration...

Meta’s move to exclude rival generative AI chatbots from WhatsApp has been paused in Italy as the country’s competition watchdog steps in, raising the stakes in a cross‑border clash between platform control and open AI competition. Background Since early 2025, WhatsApp has evolved from a pure...

Meta will appear at a closed‑door hearing in Rome this week to contest the Italian antitrust authority’s move to seek interim measures that would effectively freeze WhatsApp’s new policy restricting third‑party AI chatbots — a fast‑moving enforcement action that crystallises how competition law...

Meta will face a closed‑door hearing in Rome this week to contest a move by Italy’s antitrust regulator to temporarily block WhatsApp’s new contractual rule that, in the regulator’s view, would exclude competing AI chatbots from the messaging platform — a rapid escalation in a dispute that...

WhatsApp is warning an expanding group of Windows 11 users that they will be forcibly logged out of the desktop app to complete an update that replaces the native Windows client with a Chromium-based WebView2 wrapper — a migration that early hands‑on tests show produces materially higher RAM...

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...

Meta has begun a sweeping overhaul of account support across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, replacing scattered help pages and slow appeals with a centralized, AI-driven support hub and a new suite of business-facing AI tools — a move that promises faster recovery for hacked accounts but also...

In Windows 11 laptop, I cannot download files from Email and Whatsapp (both web version and Whatsapp app), even I have paused the antivirus protection, the files are still uphold and cannot be downloaded. Please help on this issue? Thank you

WhatsApp has quietly rewritten its WhatsApp Business Solution terms to bar third‑party, general‑purpose AI chatbots — a change that will force OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, and a swath of independent assistants off the platform’s Business API on January 15, 2026. Background / Overview...

Microsoft has confirmed that its AI assistant Copilot will stop responding on WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, forcing users to migrate to Microsoft’s own Copilot surfaces (mobile apps, web, and Windows) or export chat histories before the cutoff. Background In mid‑October 2025 WhatsApp updated its...

WhatsApp’s Calls Tab has been rebuilt as a single, purpose‑built “call hub,” folding dialing, scheduling, favourites and recent activity into one place — a design shift that aims to make voice and video calling faster to start and easier to manage on both phones and watches. The update...

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...

If you’ve been using Microsoft Copilot inside WhatsApp to speed replies, look up facts, or test prompts on the fly, act now: those in‑chat Copilot conversations will stop working on January 15, 2026, and — crucially — they won’t migrate automatically into your Microsoft account. Export and...

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 move to block third‑party AI assistants from WhatsApp will take effect on January 15, 2026, forcing widely used services such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity and a host of startup bots to shut the WhatsApp channel and push users to standalone apps or other interfaces. The change...

Microsoft and OpenAI will no longer offer their general-purpose AI assistants inside WhatsApp after January 15, 2026, following a policy change from Meta that bars third‑party large‑language‑model (LLM) chatbots from the WhatsApp Business Solution; Microsoft confirms Copilot’s WhatsApp contact...