Meta's most controversial decision in 2025 was also its most revealing: committing roughly $60–65 billion in capital, primarily toward AI compute and data centers. That level of spending unsettled some investors, especially those who had grown accustomed to Meta's post-2022 cost discipline.

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Italy has ordered Meta to suspend its policy that bans companies from using WhatsApp's business tools to offer their own AI chatbots on the popular chat app.

Meta said the WhatsApp application programming interface wasn't designed to support AI chatbots. - kirill kudryavtsev/Agence France-Presse/ The Italian Competition Authority said it ordered WhatsApp owner Meta Platforms to suspend a policy that excludes rival artificial-intelligence chatbots from the messaging platform.

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Italy’s competition authority has ordered Meta to suspend its WhatsApp policy banning rival AI chatbots, citing concerns that the move may harm competition while favouring Meta’s own AI services.

In an astonishing update, Italy has ordered Meta to suspend its new policy that bans rivals artificial intelligence chatbots using WhatsApp’s business tools, after concerns that the company may be misusing its dominance in the market.

Italy's antitrust authority has ordered Meta to halt its ban on rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp, investigating potential market abuse