EU Orders Meta to Allow Rival Chatbots on WhatsApp

Meta Platforms has been ordered by EU antitrust regulators to give rival AI chatbots such as OpenAI free access to WhatsApp while they continue to investigate whether the company abused its market power by blocking competitors from the messaging app. The European ​Commission's decision to issue an interim measure against Meta followed complaints from The Interaction Company of ​California, developer of the Poke.com AI assistant, French AI startup Agentik and a Spanish ⁠rival.