WhatsApp to end support for Microsoft’s AI chatbot Copilot on January 15

Microsoft has announced that its AI assistant Copilot will stop functioning on WhatsApp after January 15. Once that date passes, anyone who wants to keep using Copilot will need to move to Microsoft’s dedicated Copilot apps or access the chatbot through the web.

The shift is due to a policy update WhatsApp introduced last month. Explaining the reason, the company said in a blog post: “This change is due to recent updates to WhatsApp’s platform policies removing all LLM chatbots from the platform effective January 15th, and as a result, Copilot…