Italy’s competition authority, the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, launched an investigation into potential EU competition violations related to Meta embedding its AI tool into WhatsApp, Reuters reports. The AGCM said by implementing the use of its AI tool in the messaging platform, Meta “appears to be able to steer its user base into the new market not through merit-based competition, but by ‘forcing’ users to accept the availability of two distinct services, potentially harming competing services.”
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