Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July
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Meta's WhatsApp pushes back against Italy's pending chatbot injunction
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I still don't understand why Meta did this. It's a good opportunity to grow WhatsApp. It'd give people in areas of lower bandwidth speeds access to LLMs. Meta could just charge these large companies some sort of fee for running their LLMs through WhatsApp ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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ChatGPT and Copilot are being booted out of WhatsApp