{"id":991124,"date":"2026-02-10T11:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991124"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:46:06","slug":"europe-regulators-to-mark-zuckerbergs-meta-stop-from-blocking-rival-ai-chatbots-from-whatsapp-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/10\/europe-regulators-to-mark-zuckerbergs-meta-stop-from-blocking-rival-ai-chatbots-from-whatsapp-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe regulators to Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Meta: Stop from blocking rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp or\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Union (EU) antitrust regulators have issued a warning to Facebook-parent company Meta, threatening it with imposing interim measures for blocking rival artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and services on WhatsApp. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the European Commission announced on Monday (February 9) that it has sent a \u201cstatement of objections\u201d to the company, indicating an escalation in its investigation into suspected abuses of market dominance.<\/p>\n<p>EU regulators say they are protecting \u2018vibrant field\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union (EU) antitrust regulators have issued a warning to Facebook-parent company Meta, threatening it with imposing interim measures for blocking rival artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and services on WhatsApp. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the European Commission announced on Monday (February 9) that it has sent a \u201cstatement of objections\u201d to the company, indicating an escalation in its investigation into suspected abuses of market dominance. EU regulators say they are protecting \u2018vibrant field\u2019<\/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-991124","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\/991124","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=991124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}