Wednesday, 10 June, 2026
EU Forces Meta to Open WhatsApp Gates to OpenAI for Free
By TechShots Studio
The European Union has hit Meta with an interim antitrust order, forcing the tech giant to provide rival AI companies—including OpenAI—with free access to the WhatsApp Business API. The decision pauses Meta's recent paid-access policy while regulators investigate whether the company used WhatsApp's massive reach to unfairly advantage its own Meta AI assistant. Meta strongly criticized the decision as "regulatory overreach" and announced plans to appeal.
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