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Microsoft has confirmed that Copilot — its consumer-facing AI assistant — will be removed from WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, a direct consequence of an October policy revision to the WhatsApp Business Solution that disallows general-purpose LLM‑based chatbots from using the Business API as a...

Microsoft has confirmed that its Copilot AI chatbot will stop working on WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, joining OpenAI’s ChatGPT in being removed from the platform after Meta rewrote the WhatsApp Business API rules to bar general-purpose LLM chatbots. Background In mid‑October 2025 WhatsApp...

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...

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 confirmed that Copilot’s WhatsApp presence will be shuttered on January 15, 2026, forcing millions of users and many small-business workflows to export chat histories and migrate to Microsoft’s first‑party Copilot surfaces before that deadline. Background / Overview Since late 2024...

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 Copilot will stop working inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, after Meta rewrote the WhatsApp Business Solution Terms to bar third‑party, general‑purpose AI assistants from using the Business API — a change that forces Microsoft to move users to Copilot’s native apps, the web, and...

Microsoft confirmed that Copilot — its consumer-facing AI assistant — will stop responding inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, after WhatsApp updated its Business Solution terms to ban general-purpose large-language-model (LLM) chatbots from operating on the platform, forcing users and...

Microsoft confirmed this week that Copilot will no longer be available on WhatsApp after January 15, 2026, a direct consequence of a recent revision to WhatsApp’s Business Solution terms that explicitly bars general-purpose large‑language‑model (LLM) chatbots from operating on the platform...

Microsoft confirmed today that Copilot—the company’s consumer-facing AI assistant—will stop functioning inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, forcing users to migrate to Microsoft’s Copilot mobile apps, the Copilot web experience, or Copilot on Windows and to export any WhatsApp chat history they...

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'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...

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 withdraw Copilot from WhatsApp — effective January 15, 2026 — is the clearest sign yet that messaging platforms and AI providers are entering a new phase of contest and consolidation over where large language models live, how they authenticate users, and which channels...

Meta’s recent update has quietly replaced WhatsApp’s native Windows 11 client with a WebView2-wrapped build that effectively loads web.whatsapp.com inside a Chromium-based runtime — a move that independent testers and multiple outlets say increases RAM usage, degrades responsiveness, and weakens...

WhatsApp’s freshly redesigned desktop client has quietly arrived in Pakistan — a milestone that signals the end of the older native Windows app and the beginning of a WebView2-wrapped, web-first experience that brings feature parity with the web and mobile clients but also a heavier resource...

Meta has quietly yanked the native Windows 11 WhatsApp client and replaced it with a WebView2-wrapped instance of the web app, a change that is already rolling out and which — according to multiple independent tests and community reports — produces markedly higher RAM usage, weaker Windows...

Meta has quietly replaced the native WhatsApp client on Windows 11 with a WebView2-wrapped instance of web.whatsapp.com — a change that crashes the promise of a lightweight, integrated Windows experience and leaves users facing significantly higher memory use, degraded notifications, and a more...

WhatsApp’s long-awaited wrist presence, OpenAI’s new agentic security researcher and Microsoft’s latest Copilot personality together mark a notable week in AI and mobile messaging — a trio of releases that push convenience, automation and agentic thinking forward while reopening familiar...

CISA’s September additions to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog — the TP‑Link TL‑WA855RE missing‑authentication flaw (CVE‑2020‑24363) and the WhatsApp incorrect‑authorization weakness (CVE‑2025‑55177) — are a reminder that adversaries continue to exploit both legacy IoT devices...