Meta is pushing rival AI assistants off WhatsApp, forcing popular bots like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot to shut down their integrations just as messaging becomes a key battleground for consumer AI.

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Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s adding an AI-powered summaries feature to WhatsApp. The optional new feature uses Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a chat. This summary would only be ...

As concerns over the emotional pull of general-purpose LLM chatbots like ChatGPT grow by the day, Meta appears to be letting its chatbot personas engage in flirtatious exchanges with children, ...

Meta Says No More General Purpose Chatbots on WhatsApp (Except Its Own) Third-party chatbots will be banned from the platform as of Jan. 15, 2026, with Meta AI becoming the only major chatbot ...