{"id":990933,"date":"2026-02-10T08:21:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990933"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:03:28","slug":"eu-warns-meta-it-must-open-up-whatsapp-to-rival-ai-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/10\/eu-warns-meta-it-must-open-up-whatsapp-to-rival-ai-chatbots\/","title":{"rendered":"EU warns Meta it must open up WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU competition regulators have threatened to stop Meta Platforms from \u2060blocking artificial intelligence rivals from its WhatsApp messaging service while it investigates suspected abuse of a dominant position by the U.S. tech giant. The European Commission said on \u200cMonday that it \u200chas sent a statement of objections, or charges, to Meta over violation of the bloc&#8217;s \u200crules and intends to impose interim measures to prevent serious and irreparable harm to rivals, mirroring moves by Italy&#8217;s competition watchdog in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU competition regulators have threatened to stop Meta Platforms from \u2060blocking artificial intelligence rivals from its WhatsApp messaging service while it investigates suspected abuse of a dominant position by the U.S. tech giant. The European Commission said on \u200cMonday that it \u200chas sent a statement of objections, or charges, to Meta over violation of the bloc&#8217;s \u200crules and intends to impose interim measures to prevent serious and irreparable harm to rivals, mirroring moves by Italy&#8217;s competition watchdog in December.<\/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-990933","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\/990933","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=990933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}