EU ORDERS META TO STOP BLOCKING RIVAL AI CHATBOTS ON WHATSAPP

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The EU has ordered Meta to open up WhatsApp to chatbots from rival companies for free. Meta banned third-party AI chatbots from the WhatsApp for Business API in October last year. The EU said Meta was abusing its dominant position in the European messaging app by preventing competing assistants from using the WhatsApp API. Meta plans to appeal the decision, saying the order is a regulatory overreach that would grant some of the world's largest companies access to the API without paying.