{"id":1003331,"date":"2026-04-16T11:45:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003331"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:15:05","slug":"european-commission-warns-meta-over-whatsapp-ai-feature-orders-rollback-company-replies-with-openai-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/16\/european-commission-warns-meta-over-whatsapp-ai-feature-orders-rollback-company-replies-with-openai-example\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission \u2018warns\u2019 Meta over WhatsApp AI feature, orders rollback: Company replies with \u2018OpenAI\u2019 example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has officially \u201cwarned\u201d Meta and is moving to order a rollback of recent changes to WhatsApp. The Commission notified Meta that it should reinstate rival artificial intelligence (AI) assistants on its WhatsApp messaging service, after the tech giant imposed an access fee that the regulator believes is designed to squeeze out competitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission notified Meta that the revised policy seems to have the same effect of excluding third-party \u2060AI assistants from WhatsApp and thus appears at first sight to be in breach of EU competition rules,\u201d the EU\u2019s executive arm said, as per a report by news agency Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has officially \u201cwarned\u201d Meta and is moving to order a rollback of recent changes to WhatsApp. The Commission notified Meta that it should reinstate rival artificial intelligence (AI) assistants on its WhatsApp messaging service, after the tech giant imposed an access fee that the regulator believes is designed to squeeze out competitors. \u201cThe Commission notified Meta that the revised policy seems to have the same effect of excluding third-party \u2060AI assistants from WhatsApp and thus appears at first sight to be in breach of EU competition rules,\u201d the EU\u2019s executive arm said, as per a report by [&hellip;]<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003331","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=1003331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}