Italy's antitrust regulator is investigating Meta Platforms for allegedly misusing market dominance by integrating its AI tool into WhatsApp without user consent, potentially breaching EU competition laws and disadvantaging rivals.

Italy's antitrust authority said on Wednesday it had launched an investigation into Meta Platforms over allegations the company abused its dominant position by installing its artificial intelligence tool on messaging service WhatsApp.

Italy’s competition watchdog has opened a formal inquiry into Meta over the embedding of its AI assistant into WhatsApp without user consent.

Italy's antitrust authority said on Wednesday it had launched an investigation into Meta Platforms over allegations it had abused its dominant position by pre-installing its artificial intelligence tool on messaging service WhatsApp.

Italy’s antitrust watchdog (AGCM) is investigating Meta for integrating its AI assistant into WhatsApp without user consent.

Competiton regulator smells abuse of a dominant market position, Zuckercorp claims all is well Meta's addition of AI services to encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp has Italian officials suspecting the Silicon Valley giant may be abusing its dominant market position to push unwanted features on users.

The technology giant is under investigation in Italy for alleged breaches of EU competition law. View on euronews

The Italian competition regulator launched a probe into Meta (META) alleging that the company abused its dominant position by installing AI tool on WhatsApp.