Italy's regulator halts Meta's AI chatbot restriction order, EU follows up with investigation

【Crypto World】Recently, there has been an interesting development worth paying attention to—the Italian Competition Authority has halted a restriction imposed by Meta on WhatsApp business tools. What is the restriction? It is a policy that bans companies from accessing third-party AI chatbots.

The regulatory body's logic is very clear: such actions could constitute market abuse and harm competition. To put it more plainly, this policy, originally scheduled to be implemented in January, is actually blocking new entrants into the AI chatbot field. Services from companies like OpenAI and Perplexity are restricted, and the development space for new technologies is being squeezed.

Interestingly, the European Commission is now also investigating this matter separately. It seems that major platforms using their dominance to limit competitors are increasingly attracting the attention of regulators.