
Rome pushes Meta to allow other AIs on WhatsApp
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Rome: Italian regulators ordered Meta on Wednesday to open its WhatsApp chat platform to rival AI chatbots as it and EU authorities pursue a probe tha...
Rome: Italian regulators ordered Meta on Wednesday to open its WhatsApp chat platform to rival AI chatbots as it and EU authorities pursue a probe that the US tech giant is abusing its dominant market position.
Meta has integrated Meta AI across the company's platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram, that serve billions of users globally.
In October, Meta introduced new contractual conditions that will apply from January 15 that Italy's competition regulator said "completely exclude Meta AI's competitors from the WhatsApp platform in the AI Chatbot services market."
Earlier this month the European Commission opened an antitrust probe to determine if the way Meta is rolling out AI features in WhatsApp breaches the bloc's competition rules.
Meta AI is a generative AI chatbot that can interact with users.













