All Meta apps, whether Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, or WhatsApp, now feature that multi-colored circle that says AI is in the room. I’ve said more than once that I do not want that sort of ...

At least it was possible to delete that free U2 album that Apple foisted on its customers in 2014; there is no way to remove Meta AI from WhatsApp. I didn’t – don’t – want Meta AI. If I ...

It took 11 years since Facebook acquired it for $19 billion, but Meta is finally bringing ads to WhatsApp, marking a major change for an app whose founders shunned advertising ...

Meta is also hoping to monetize WhatsApp through paid subscriptions and search ads on the app's Channels feature. About 1.5 billion daily users access the Updates tab, which includes Channels and ...

WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton testified in Meta’s defense against the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust suit that alleges an anticompetitive deal to buy the app.

Meta brings ads to WhatsApp By The Associated Press Updated June 17, 2025 4:17 a.m. FILE - A WhatsApp icon is displayed on an iPhone, Nov. 15, 2018, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

WhatsApp and other meta-apps in Europe recently introduced an AI assistant – and criticism of it. Now it has disappeared. Meta promises a remedy.

WhatsApp says that users will start seeing ads in parts of the app, as owner Meta Platforms moves to cultivate a new revenue stream by tapping the billions of people that use the messaging service.