{"id":9590,"date":"2026-06-10T12:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9590"},"modified":"2026-06-10T12:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:01:02","slug":"whatsapp-ordered-to-host-rival-ai-assistants-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9590","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp ordered to host rival AI assistants for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong>Jess Weatherbed<\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 10, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The WhatsApp logo against a green, white, and black background.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/STK110_whats_app_Kradtke_02.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Meta has been ordered by the European Commission to restore free WhatsApp access for chatbots made by rival AI providers while the regulator finishes its antitrust investigation. The rare interim measure <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_26_1276\">announced on Tuesday<\/a> was deemed necessary &#8220;to prevent serious and irreparable damage to competition&#8221; in the general-purpose AI assistant market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">This is only the second time that the EU has used the emergency power in more than 20 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-orders-meta-to-reopen-whatsapp-to-ai-rivals-for-free\/\"><em>Politico<\/em><\/a> reports. It follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/838020\/meta-whatsapp-eu-antitrust-investigation-ai-tools\">launch of a formal investigation<\/a> in December 2025 into whether Meta was abusing its market dominance by banning third-party AI chatbots from its WhatsApp messaging platform. \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/947516\/meta-whatsapp-eu-third-party-ai-chatbot-ban-order\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/947516\/meta-whatsapp-eu-third-party-ai-chatbot-ban-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Weatherbed &bull; June 10, 2026 Meta has been ordered by the European Commission to restore free WhatsApp access for chatbots made by rival AI providers while the regulator finishes its antitrust investigation. The rare interim measure announced on Tuesday was deemed necessary &#8220;to prevent serious and irreparable damage to competition&#8221; in the general-purpose AI<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9590\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}