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Meta’s AI-agent fight will test EU regulator on infrastructure, access and fees

By Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst ( February 9, 2026, 17:14 GMT | Comment) -- The nascent market for AI assistants is at the heart of a fight between Meta Platforms and the European Commission that will see the two sides clash over how important WhatsApp is as a distribution channel for bots, and whether messaging infrastructure can handle AI traffic volumes. A further battleground will be whether Meta can charge AI companies for access to its platform or needs to give them access for free, as it was recently doing.The nascent market for AI assistants is at the heart of a fight between Meta Platforms and the European Commission that will see the two sides clash over how important WhatsApp is as a distribution channel for bots, and whether messaging infrastructure can handle AI traffic volumes....

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