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Oct 21 2025TECHNOLOGY

WhatsApp Shuts Door on AI Chatbots

WhatsApp is making a big change. Starting next year, AI companies can't use WhatsApp as a chat interface. This move affects companies like OpenAI and Perplexity, which have been using WhatsApp to let users chat with their AI models. This change is interesting because WhatsApp has a huge user base—3 billion people! Many AI companies saw this as a great opportunity to...

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