Meta Stock: WhatsApp Ordered By Italian Regulators To Allow Rival AI Apps

Italian regulators ordered Meta Platforms (META) to keep its WhatsApp messaging platform open to rival chatbots, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Meta stock was a fraction lower Wednesday. The Italian Competition Authority said Wednesday that a policy change within WhatsApp will “completely exclude Meta AI’s competitors” from the platform once it takes effect Jan. 15. That could harm competition and be…