WhatsApp is rolling out ads on parts of the popular Meta-owned social media and messaging platform, the company said Monday in an unveiling that heavily stressed user privacy will remain protected.

As spotted by TechCrunch, starting January 15, 2026, LLM providers will be banned from using WhatsApp’s business API “when ...

Meta’s new policy bans general-purpose AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity from WhatsApp Business API starting January ...

Meta's rationale behind this move is that WhatsApp Business API is designed for businesses serving customers rather than ...

WhatsApp is testing a new feature that lets users build their own AI chatbot assistant within the app, reports WABetaInfo. Currently rolling out to a small number of WhatsApp beta testers is a new ...

WhatsApp updates Business API terms, prohibiting general-purpose AI chatbots like ChatGPT from Jan 15, 2026. Understand the ...