Meta's rationale behind this move is that WhatsApp Business API is designed for businesses serving customers rather than ...

ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, and others are available on WhatsApp, but Meta's new policy aims to ban such services. Here's when ...

As spotted by TechCrunch, starting January 15, 2026, LLM providers will be banned from using WhatsApp’s business API “when ...

Third-party chatbots will be banned from the platform as of Jan. 15, 2026, with Meta AI becoming the only major chatbot ...

From January 2026, Meta will prohibit general-purpose AI assistants on WhatsApp to protect its infrastructure and revenue ...

Meta will ban general-purpose AI chatbots from WhatsApp Business API starting January 15, 2026, forcing ChatGPT and others ...

Meta’s new policy bans general-purpose AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity from WhatsApp Business API starting January ...

WhatsApp’s move underscores the growing turf war in the AI race and signals a shift toward more closed, tightly controlled ...

OpenAI has announced that its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, will cease operations on WhatsApp from January 15, 2026 following Meta's ban on third-party AI chatbots.

The change affects third-party assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity, while preserving bots used for customer-service ...