{"id":978767,"date":"2025-12-05T12:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978767"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:24:11","slug":"meta-risks-temporary-ban-on-whatsapp-ai-plan-amid-eu-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/05\/meta-risks-temporary-ban-on-whatsapp-ai-plan-amid-eu-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta risks temporary ban on WhatsApp AI plan amid EU probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms Inc. risks a temporary European Union ban on the rollout of new policies over how its AI features in WhatsApp, after being hit by the latest probe into Big Tech\u2019s alleged dominance on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Teresa Ribera, the EU\u2019s antitrust chief, said Thursday she\u2019s weighing so-called interim measures \u201cto ensure that this could not blow up.\u201d She made the comments to reporters in Brussels after signing off on an investigation into suspicions that WhatsApp AI tools may unfairly prevent rival AI providers from offering their business services through WhatsApp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms Inc. risks a temporary European Union ban on the rollout of new policies over how its AI features in WhatsApp, after being hit by the latest probe into Big Tech\u2019s alleged dominance on the continent. Teresa Ribera, the EU\u2019s antitrust chief, said Thursday she\u2019s weighing so-called interim measures \u201cto ensure that this could not blow up.\u201d She made the comments to reporters in Brussels after signing off on an investigation into suspicions that WhatsApp AI tools may unfairly prevent rival AI providers from offering their business services through WhatsApp.<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978767","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=978767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}