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Latest Meta probes involve novel AI tech but familiar antitrust claims

By Nicholas Hirst ( December 15, 2025, 13:08 GMT | Comment) -- Meta Platforms must explain to enforcers why it opened up WhatsApp to companies large and small a few years ago, only to now expel other companies' AI chatbots that compete with its own Meta AI service. Regulators are delving into a new digital realm, but the questions they need to wrestle with are very familiar: Should a platform bear costs to help rivals compete? To what extent is a dominant tech service free to improve its offering with new services?Suspicions that Meta Platforms is hampering competition in the frontier market for AI chatbots may involve an exotic new technology. But the core allegation is a well-worn one: trying to shut out rivals....

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