Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/business-solution-terms/preview?lang=en”>changed its business API policy this week to ban general-purpose chatbots from its platform. The move will likely affect WhatsApp-based assistants of companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, Khosla Ventures-backed rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.luzia.com/en”Luzia, and General Catalyst-backed rel=”nofollow” href=”https://interaction.co/about”Poke.

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