{"id":977584,"date":"2025-12-01T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977584"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:33:15","slug":"explained-why-chatgpt-and-microsoft-copilot-will-not-be-available-on-whatsapp-after-january-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/01\/explained-why-chatgpt-and-microsoft-copilot-will-not-be-available-on-whatsapp-after-january-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Why ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot will not be available on WhatsApp after January 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot will no longer be available on WhatsApp after January 15, 2026, following Meta&#8217;s updated platform policies that effectively ban rival AI chatbots from the messaging service. The policy change, announced in October 2025, prohibits AI companies from using WhatsApp&#8217;s business API as a distribution platform for chatbots where artificial intelligence is the primary product being offered.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI announced its departure in late October, revealing that over 50 million users had engaged with ChatGPT on WhatsApp. Microsoft followed with its announcement on November 24, confirming Copilot would also discontinue service on the same date. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot will no longer be available on WhatsApp after January 15, 2026, following Meta&#8217;s updated platform policies that effectively ban rival AI chatbots from the messaging service. The policy change, announced in October 2025, prohibits AI companies from using WhatsApp&#8217;s business API as a distribution platform for chatbots where artificial intelligence is the primary product being offered. OpenAI announced its departure in late October, revealing that over 50 million users had engaged with ChatGPT on WhatsApp. Microsoft followed with its announcement on November 24, confirming Copilot would also discontinue service on the same date.<\/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-977584","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\/977584","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=977584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}