Updates on WhatsApp

Every AI story we track on WhatsApp: 34 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.

Pulled from 125 sources

This week

Cybersecurity6 min read

WhatsApp Hid Instructions in Help Pages Telling Its AI Chatbot Not to Recommend Privacy Regulators

The Hacker News

This month

Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free

Covered by 3 sources
Agents11 min read

Meta Muse Explained: What It Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do

KDnuggets
Agents5 min read

Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.

TechCrunch

Meta’s AI Agent Has a Trust Problem

Covered by 5 sources

Meta lets Claude and Codex configure WhatsApp Business via MCP. But the agents don’t get their own identity.

The New Stack (AI)
Agents4 min read

Agent-net Open Sources Webagent: A Go Harness That Turns Any Website into a Guarded AI Agent

MarkTechPost
Agents7 min read

I tried Meta’s new Muse AI agent — it’s incredibly useful, but handing it my digital life felt deeply uncomfortable

TechRadar
Social Media2 min read

Meta says it’s changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions

The Verge
Agents13 min read

Poke Review: I Let an AI Assistant Run My Life Over Text

Unite.AI
Consumer Tech4 min read

I thought ChatGPT’s new Stickers feature sounded like peak AI slop — then I made a pack I actually wanted to use

TechRadar
Agents1 min read

Run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK

Vercel
Cybersecurity2 min read

WhatsApp Adds Multiple Passkeys for Phishing-Resistant Sign-Ins Across iOS and Android

The Hacker News
Machine Learning3 min read

Whatsapp Tests on Device ML for Scam Detection with Privacy Preserving Analytics

InfoQ (AI, ML & Data)
Cybersecurity4 min read

WhatsApp scam costs Hong Kong man $1.27 million after criminals used AI voice notes to impersonate his father — experts say secret codewords are the best way to stay safe

TechRadar
Cybersecurity4 min read

OpenAI Disrupts Poipet Scam Network Using ChatGPT Across Multiple Fraud Schemes

The Hacker News
Agents1 min read

Pally

Product Hunt
Agents5 min read

Mark Zuckerberg Is Putting All His Chips on an AI Future, Whether You Want It or Not

CNET
Agents4 min read

Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years

Covered by 2 sources
Agents6 min read

Meta Bets Its Next Revenue Line on Personal AI Agents

Unite.AI
Agents3 min read

Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents

The Verge
Public Sector3 min read

EU Parliament revives a ‘zombie’ child-abuse scanning bill it rejected in March

The Next Web
Image Generation2 min read

Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos

Covered by 4 sources
Cybersecurity4 min read

India widens its usernames crackdown to Telegram and Signal

The Next Web
Social Media4 min read

India tells WhatsApp to pause its usernames feature pending consultations

The Next Web

The EU just ordered Meta to let rival AI assistants back onto WhatsApp within five days

The Next Web

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans

Covered by 2 sources

Meta offers rival AI chatbots a limited free pass into WhatsApp, on Brussels’ terms

The Next Web

WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats

Covered by 2 sources

Meta rolls out new scam detection across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook

The Next Web

After Europe, WhatsApp will let rival AI companies offer chatbots in Brazil

TechCrunch

EU threatens to act over Meta blocking rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp

The Guardian
That's everything we have on WhatsApp right now