Third-party chatbots will be banned from the platform as of Jan. 15, 2026, with Meta AI becoming the only remaining general-purpose chatbot available on WhatsApp.
Effective January 15, 2026, the move will impact AI companies, including OpenAI, Perplexity, Luzia, and Poke, which use ...
Meta has updated its WhatsApp Business API policy to prohibit general-purpose AI assistants starting January 2026. This move ...
Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp changed its business API policy this week to ban general-purpose chatbots from its platform. The ...