{"id":1003258,"date":"2026-04-16T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003258"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:52:08","slug":"eu-threatens-to-force-meta-to-restore-whatsapp-full-access-for-rival-ai-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/16\/eu-threatens-to-force-meta-to-restore-whatsapp-full-access-for-rival-ai-chatbots\/","title":{"rendered":"EU threatens to force Meta to restore WhatsApp full access for rival AI chatbots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 European Union regulators have threatened to force WhatsApp parent Meta Platforms to reverse a move that they say effectively limits the AI chatbots of rival companies from accessing the messaging app.<\/p>\n<p>Meta&#8217;s attempt to resolve the bloc\u2019s antitrust investigation of WhatsApp by charging third-party AI companies for access is unsatisfactory, the European Commission said Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 European Union regulators have threatened to force WhatsApp parent Meta Platforms to reverse a move that they say effectively limits the AI chatbots of rival companies from accessing the messaging app. Meta&#8217;s attempt to resolve the bloc\u2019s antitrust investigation of WhatsApp by charging third-party AI companies for access is unsatisfactory, the European Commission said Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}