WhatsApp ( META) will allow AI chatbots from rivals on its platform in Europe by charging them a fee, after the bloc's regulator found that the Meta-owned messaging app was taking advantage of its ...

Meta will allow rival AI chatbot providers to offer their services on WhatsApp for a fee, which ranges from €0.0490 to €0.1323 per "non-template message," depending on the country.

Artificial intelligence rivals will be allowed on WhatsApp for a year, Meta Platforms said, aiming to head off a possible ...

Microsoft previews Copilot Tasks, an agent-like feature that runs multi-step workflows in the background, with consent checkpoints and user control ...

WhatsApp is developing scheduled messages for iPhone, spotted in an iOS TestFlight beta. Users will pick a send time and manage queued texts.

The European Parliament disabled built-in AI features on lawmakers’ work devices, citing unresolved cloud-processing security ...

If your Messages inbox is catching a lot of stray, unwanted messages, we'll show you how to filter, report, and block spam messages on iOS 26. At WWDC 2025, Apple announced that it would be bringing ...

While blocking someone on WhatsApp is simple, the process usually requires opening the chat first. If you don’t want to open someone’s message before you block them, things get a little complicated ...

Both the founders of WhatsApp and current owner Meta state that the app uses end-to-end encryption, meaning that nobody outside the chat can access the content. A lawsuit claims that this isn’t true ...

Abstract: Digital forensics has made significant advancements in addressing the challenges posed by cybercriminals, particularly with the increasing use of instant messaging (IM) platforms as digital ...