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EU regulators order Meta to allow rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp
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- EU regulators order Meta to allow rival AI chatbots free access to Whats App FILE PHOTO: Illustration shows EU flag and Meta logo · Reuters Foo Yun Chee Tue, June 9, 2026 at 10:21 PM GMT+7 2 min read By Foo Yun Chee
- Those complaints prompted the Commission, the EU s competition enforcer, to open an investigation in December last year.
- "In rapidly evolving markets, competition can be lost long before a final decision is adopted," EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera said in a statement.
EU regulators order Meta to allow rival AI chatbots free access to Whats App FILE PHOTO: Illustration shows EU flag and Meta logo · Reuters Foo Yun Chee Tue, June 9, 2026 at 10:21 PM GMT+7 2 min read By Foo Yun Chee
BRUSSELS, June 9 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators on Tuesday ordered Meta Platforms to give rival AI chatbots free access to Whats App 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 - its first in 17 years - followed complaints from The Interaction Company of California, developer of the Poke.com AI assistant, French AI startup Agentik and a Spanish rival.
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