{"id":1007839,"date":"2026-05-13T10:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007839"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:27:17","slug":"meta-offers-rival-ai-chatbots-free-access-to-whatsapp-for-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/13\/meta-offers-rival-ai-chatbots-free-access-to-whatsapp-for-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta offers rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp for a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms has offered to give rival AI chatbots free access to its social messaging service WhatsApp for \u200ca \u2060month \u2060while it discusses commitments with EU antitrust regulators to address their concerns, the U.S. tech giant said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meta&#8217;s move came after \u2060the European \u200cCommission, which acts as the EU competition \u2060enforcer, indicated that it was inclined to order the company to provide rival AI chatbots access to WhatsApp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms has offered to give rival AI chatbots free access to its social messaging service WhatsApp for \u200ca \u2060month \u2060while it discusses commitments with EU antitrust regulators to address their concerns, the U.S. tech giant said on Tuesday. Meta&#8217;s move came after \u2060the European \u200cCommission, which acts as the EU competition \u2060enforcer, indicated that it was inclined to order the company to provide rival AI chatbots access to WhatsApp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007839","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}