WhatsApp Business prohibits access to ChatGPT, Luzia and all generalist chatbots in its business API. Only one survives

Meta has updated the conditions of use of its WhatsApp business API to prohibit access to third-party generalist chatbots, as reported TechCrunch. The measure, which comes into effect on January 15, 2026, affects tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Luzia and Poke. Meta AI From then on, it will be the only generalist AI assistant that will remain operational on the platform. Why is it important. WhatsApp has more than 3 billion monthly active users, which has turned the platform into an unrivaled distribution channel for AI companies. The decision consolidates Meta’s control over the AI ​​experience in its ecosystem and eliminates direct competitors that had free access to its huge user base. The blow to Luzia. The Spanish chatbot, created after the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, went viral precisely due to its integration with WhatsApp. Its star feature—the automatic transcription of voice audio—turned Luzia in a phenomenon. WhatsApp later incorporated this same function natively. That viral hook led Luzia to reach one million users very quickly. At the beginning of this year, in a report in which we analyze his state at that timehad 60 million users in 40 countries, having raised 30 million euros in financing. The startup operates both as a standalone mobile application for iOS and Android… …as a service integrated into WhatsApp, although with more limited functions in this latest version. Between the lines. Meta justifies the change by arguing that generalist chatbots generate an excessive volume of messages that overloads its systems and requires a type of support for which the company is not prepared. However, the context suggests other types of motivations: WhatsApp’s business API is one of the main sources of income for the platform. Meta charges businesses based on different message templates: marketing, utilities, authentication, and support. The problem is that there was no specific category for AI chatbots, which meant that companies like OpenAI or Luzia were accessing WhatsApp’s infrastructure and audience without paying for it. The money trail. During the presentation of results for the first quarter of 2025, Mark Zuckerberg stressed that enterprise messaging was “the next big opportunity” to generate income. “Enterprise messaging should be the next pillar of our business,” he explained. In this context, allowing competitors like OpenAI to distribute their products for free through WhatsApp is not only a technical burden, but a lost business opportunity. Meta has clarified that the ban does not affect companies that use AI as an auxiliary tool to serve their customers. A travel agency operating a customer service bot or a bank with an automated assistant can continue to operate without problems. The key distinction is that AI should be an “incidental or auxiliary” functionality, not the core product. ANDn game. Luzia will have to concentrate its efforts on its native mobile applications. The startup still operates without a defined business model, financing itself exclusively through venture capital. In January 2025, its CEO Álvaro Higes explained that its future strategy will likely include advertisements and sponsored links. ChatGPT, Perplexity and the rest of the generalist chatbots have less than three months to prepare their departure from WhatsApp. For users, the transition will mean migrating to these services’ native apps or settling for Meta AI as the only in-app option. In Xataka | If the question is whether your company can put you in a WhatsApp group without asking you, the answer is a 42,000 euro fine Featured image | Mika BaumeisterLuzia

A radar prohibits more than 30 km/hour Alcoy. Men want to show that they can skip it … running

There is nothing more human than trying to overcome yourself. To consider a goal and try to go further is an aspiration as ancient as the human race. The same essence of the Olympic Games is that: exceed the maximum brands we know and measure our most perfect physical performance. And if the competent authority prohibits exceeding them, with more desire you try. Run, Alcoyano. It has been in Alcoy, in one of its most central streets, Sant Vicent Ferrer. There is installed a “pedagogical” radar that marks a maximum of 30 kilometers per hour for vehicles passing through the road. A group of countrymen has wondered if they would be able to pass that speed … running. The result: a video that in Tiktok has generated more than 3700 kilometers, more than 240,000 likes and four million visualizations. 11 tricks to dominate Tik tok What is a pedagogical radar? It is a radar with electronic panels that show drivers the speed at which they are circulating and alert them if they exceed the limits of the road: if they pass without exceeding the speed they receive a smiling face in green, and if they pass, they get a sad face and the warning in red. They are located above all where the maximum allowed is 30 kilometers per hour, in areas where high accidents or school environments have been detected. In any case, They do not sanction the driverthey only measure and report the speed, hence the name. @cyd_amanecer We are fast #speedometer #for you #alcoy ♬ Original sound – Cyd_amanecer Can you or cannot? The obvious question what we have to do in the face of such a challenge is: Can you run more than 30 kilometers per hour? In the video, in fact, a single person gets it on the hair, but it is very complicated: only elite athletes in very short distances manage to stay so above: The World Record is USAIN BOLTwho reached a peak speed of 44.72 km/h during its historic race in 2009, and its average in the 100 meters was about 37.57 km/h. Uncles things. What we see here is a typically masculine behavior, with a small competition to measure themselves with their peers and evaluate their own abilities and achievements. Here, the dynamics of “who manages to go faster” is a clear example of comparison between pairswhere recognition and status are obtained to overcome others in a public and visible test. In this case, yes, the activity is not risky, a detail that sometimes appears in this type of competitions, where it seeks to demonstrate through virile risk behaviors, such as reckless driving. Although very healthy for the knees are not these jogs. Stones throw, running radars. Actually, it is not necessary to get so transcendent or psychologists: this impulse to overcome the brand that indicates the radar is pure male competitiveness that sets in a large number of stupid competitions in which uncles embark. Reported a couple of summers, when it became fashion stones. Entertain with any bullshit (how many social media accounts you know that are Trick Shots increasingly wiring and demential), compete for anything, male life. Sport as a measure of all things. You just have to see José Luis Almeida Belowing the Balonazos Any child that is put in front of the intuitively understanding everything that leads us to this point: virile exhibitionism, playing regular everything but believing Greek athletes just because once in the courtyard of the school we put a head goal. But it is the magic of sport, which acts as a masculinity standardization device: the body is a performance machine, and attributes such as strength, resistance, speed and competitiveness become male value standards. Therefore, if we measure the same in terms of “running in front of a radar” we will understand the not -so -epic side of the situation: the obsession to compete can convert any daily situation into a “battle” or a “party.” Who eats faster, who arrives before the office by car or who drinks more beers. “Sunday’s hero” who is able to momentarily match the USA Bolt brand for a thousandth of a second. The epic at a very specific point of the cosmos. In Xataka | The human being is not made to run, but to rest. At least according to a Harvard teacher

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