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Meanwhile, the Facebook and WhatsApp parent company has been skirmishing with the EU Commission over Meta’s blocking of rival AI bots from the WhatsApp business edition.
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An intruder has breached the French government’s encrypted messaging service, Tchap, showing once again that human error is a weak spot in any security system. Tchap was developed in France as an example of national sovereignty and was designed to be a more secure option than WhatsApp for communication between government employees. In this case, it wasn’t the technology that was at fault, but a user: The intruder gained access to the system by taking over their account, according to DINUM, the French government’s interministerial digital directorate. DINUM said it has blocked the affected user’s access and is investigating how much information has been revealed. While the system’s encryption was not broken, the intruder would have been able to view unencrypted public chat rooms accessible to the account taken over, potentially affecting 73,467 of the system’s 825,000 users, DINUM said. That matches at least part of a post on X (formerly Twitter) reporting the intruder’s claim to have a
Read full articleMeanwhile, the Facebook and WhatsApp parent company has been skirmishing with the EU Commission over Meta’s blocking of rival AI bots from the WhatsApp business edition.
The EU has ordered Meta to grant rival AI chatbots free access to its WhatsApp platform within five working days, while it completes its antitrust investigation into the company. Meta says it will appeal, accusing the EU of 'regulatory overreach'. Meanwhile, Brussels hit back at Apple after the iPhone maker blamed the EU's Digital Marketing Act for its decision to delay the rollout of its new Siri AI in Europe.
The European Commission has issued interim measures forcing Meta to restore third-party AI access to the WhatsApp Business API within five days.
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Meta has launched Business Agent to automate conversational commerce workflows directly inside its messaging applications. The software allows global retail brands to execute transactions and field support tickets without human intervention. Deploying this architecture places agentic AI directly at the core of social commerce. Meta integrated these workflows natively into Instagram, Messenger, and soon WhatsApp. […] The post Meta Business Agent drives AI-powered conversational commerce appeared first on AI News.