Meta to Open Up WhatsApp to Rival AI Chatbots for a Fee

Meta Platforms said it will let rival artificial-intelligence chatbots communicate with users on its WhatsApp messaging platform after the European Commission said it could impose a temporary injunction on the company as part of an antitrust probe into its AI policy.

- BY EDITH HANCOCK

The commission told Meta last month it was concerned that a new policy—which prevents rivals like ChatGPT from using a tool on WhatsApp for businesses that allows them to talk to users—could breach the bloc's competition rules. It said there was a