{"id":982050,"date":"2025-12-26T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982050"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:18:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:48:59","slug":"italy-watchdog-orders-meta-to-halt-whatsapp-terms-barring-rival-ai-chatbots-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/26\/italy-watchdog-orders-meta-to-halt-whatsapp-terms-barring-rival-ai-chatbots-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy watchdog orders Meta to halt WhatsApp terms barring rival AI chatbots: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s antitrust authority (AGCM) on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms to suspend contractual \u2060terms that could shut rival AI chatbots out of WhatsApp, as it investigates the U.S. tech group for suspected abuse of a dominant \u200cposition. <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson \u200cfor Meta called the decision &#8220;fundamentally flawed,&#8221; and said the emergence of AI chatbots &#8220;put \u200ca strain on our systems that they were not designed to support&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s antitrust authority (AGCM) on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms to suspend contractual \u2060terms that could shut rival AI chatbots out of WhatsApp, as it investigates the U.S. tech group for suspected abuse of a dominant \u200cposition. A spokesperson \u200cfor Meta called the decision &#8220;fundamentally flawed,&#8221; and said the emergence of AI chatbots &#8220;put \u200ca strain on our systems that they were not designed to support&#8221;.<\/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-982050","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\/982050","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=982050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}