Meta’s $900 million CRED investment puts fintech founder Kunal Shah in charge of WhatsApp as the app pushes deeper into ...

Indian fintech startup Cred will raise $900 million in a round led by Meta, but has lost its founder and CEO to WhatsApp.

Meta is investing $900mn in India's Cred for a ~20% stake, and making founder Kunal Shah the new head of WhatsApp, replacing Will Cathcart.

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, June 9 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms has been ordered by EU antitrust regulators to give rival AI chatbots such as OpenAI free access to WhatsApp while they continue to ...

Meta has to open up WhatsApp to third-party AI chatbots again, the European Commission says.

The order was issued amid an ongoing investigation into whether Meta abused its dominant position by blocking rivals from the messaging app.

The new mode runs Meta AI on WhatsApp inside the company’s Private Processing enclave, with conversations deleted by default and no server-side record retained. Meta has launched an Incognito Chat ...

A year after Mark Zuckerberg spent more than $14 billion to bring Alexandr Wang and a team of Scale AI engineers into Meta, ...

BRUSSELS, May 19 : Meta Platforms has offered to give rival AI chatbots including OpenAI free access to its social messaging service WhatsApp in Europe, but will start charging them once they hit a ...

The European Commission says Meta's dominance in messaging gives it no right to block or charge competitors for WhatsApp API access ...

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have long been free. So why is Meta suddenly asking users to pay? The answer may lie in Mark ...

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