{"id":1008869,"date":"2026-05-20T09:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008869"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:43:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:13:48","slug":"meta-offers-ai-rival-chatbots-limited-free-whatsapp-access-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/20\/meta-offers-ai-rival-chatbots-limited-free-whatsapp-access-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta offers AI rival chatbots limited free WhatsApp access, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms has offered to give rival AI chatbots including OpenAI free access to its social messaging service WhatsApp in Europe, but will start charging them once they hit a limit, two people with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The details of the offer, previously unreported, come as Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s tech and social media giant that also controls Facebook, looks to appease increasingly tough EU regulators that are tightening the screws on Big \u200cTech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms has offered to give rival AI chatbots including OpenAI free access to its social messaging service WhatsApp in Europe, but will start charging them once they hit a limit, two people with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. The details of the offer, previously unreported, come as Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s tech and social media giant that also controls Facebook, looks to appease increasingly tough EU regulators that are tightening the screws on Big \u200cTech.<\/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-1008869","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\/1008869","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=1008869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008871,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008869\/revisions\/1008871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}