{"id":968606,"date":"2025-10-21T08:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968606"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:49:29","slug":"meta-bans-general-purpose-ai-chatbots-from-whatsapp-business-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/21\/meta-bans-general-purpose-ai-chatbots-from-whatsapp-business-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta bans general-purpose AI chatbots from WhatsApp Business platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-owned WhatsApp has updated its business application programming interface (API) policy and will no longer allow general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on its platform, a move that will impact several AI companies using WhatsApp to deliver conversational services.<\/p>\n<p>Effective January 15, 2026, the new policy introduced a dedicated section addressing \u201cAI providers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-owned WhatsApp has updated its business application programming interface (API) policy and will no longer allow general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on its platform, a move that will impact several AI companies using WhatsApp to deliver conversational services. Effective January 15, 2026, the new policy introduced a dedicated section addressing \u201cAI providers.\u201d<\/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-968606","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\/968606","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=968606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}