WhatsApp plans to charge developers of AI chatbots per message.

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

Brazil's competition watchdog has ordered WhatsApp to put on hold its policy that bars third-party AI companies from using its business API to offer chatbots on the app. The agency has also started an ...

WhatsApp is allowing AI providers to continue offering their chatbots to users in Brazil, days after the country's competition agency ordered the company to suspend its new policy that bars ...

OpenAI officially announced the end of support on its page, stating that due to a policy and terms change from WhatsApp, ChatGPT would cease to be accessible on the messaging app. "On Jan 15, 2026, ...

Meta-owned WhatsApp has updated its Business API policy to prohibit general-purpose chatbots on its platform. The change, set to take effect on 15 January 2026, will impact AI assistants from ...

Long ago, I built a web app for an enterprise (200k+ employees). Feedback on the web app prompted me to do an experiment. What would happen if I were to create a WhatsApp chatbot to solve the specific ...