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Meta’s tightened WhatsApp Business API rules will force third‑party AI chatbots — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot — off the platform on January 15, 2026, reshaping how millions access conversational AI and accelerating a migration to vendor-owned apps and web surfaces...

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 confirmed this week that its consumer-facing AI assistant Copilot will be removed from WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, a direct consequence of a WhatsApp Business API policy rewrite that bars third‑party, general‑purpose large‑language‑model (LLM) chatbots from operating through the...

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 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...

WhatsApp will stop supporting Microsoft’s Copilot inside the messaging app on January 15, 2026, after WhatsApp’s parent company revised the WhatsApp Business Solution terms to bar third‑party, general‑purpose large‑language‑model (LLM) chatbots; Microsoft confirmed the removal and is urging...

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 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 confirmed this week that Copilot — the company’s conversational AI assistant — will be removed from WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, after WhatsApp’s parent company revised the WhatsApp Business API rules to bar third‑party, general‑purpose large‑language‑model chatbots from using the...

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 crystallizes a broader strategic pivot: major platforms are now actively closing the doors on third‑party, general‑purpose AI assistants inside core messaging surfaces, and users — as well as the developers who built for them — are the ones left...

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...

Microsoft confirmed that Copilot will stop working on WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, after WhatsApp updated its platform rules to remove general-purpose large-language-model (LLM) chatbots from the Business API — a change that forces Microsoft and other AI providers to move their assistants off...

Microsoft has confirmed that its Copilot AI chatbot will be removed from WhatsApp on January 15, 2026 — a direct consequence of WhatsApp’s revised Business API policy that bars general‑purpose AI providers from using the platform as a distribution channel. Background Since late 2024, Microsoft’s...

Microsoft and Meta have quietly redrawn one of the most important frontiers for consumer AI: as of mid-January 2026, Microsoft’s Copilot will no longer be available through WhatsApp, a removal driven directly by an October 2025 revision to WhatsApp’s Business API that bars general-purpose AI...

WhatsApp's decision to bar general-purpose AI assistants from its Business API and Microsoft’s confirmation that Copilot will be removed from WhatsApp mark a pivotal moment in how AI assistants are distributed, authenticated, and monetized—and the cutover date is explicitly set for January 15...

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...