WhatsApp plans to charge developers of AI chatbots per message.

Any warning from Google’s Project Zero threat hunters is taken seriously. This is the team behind many of the zero-day spyware discoveries plaguing Android and iPhone. This threat affects WhatsApp on Android, and relates to zero-click media downloads.

WhatsApp is claiming that a new lawsuit accusing it of failing to encrypt users’ communications is simply retaliation from an Israeli spyware company it has been battling for years. The longstanding fight pits Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp against the NSO Group,

Elon Musk has posted on X (formerly Twitter) that WhatsApp is not safe, as a lawsuit filed in a US court alleges that Meta employees can bypass WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption to read private messages in real-time.

WhatsApp is about to introduce a major new capability, it’s reported and it will finally allow users of the WhatsApp web app to take part in voice and video calls. Parent company Meta has other innovations planned, including a feature for iOS users to be able to share their chat history with new group members. More on that below.

A proposed class action accusing Meta of accessing WhatsApp messages is drawing early skepticism from experts, claiming it lacks evidence.

WhatsApp Channels is now subject to EU DSA rules as a VLOP, expanding content moderation oversight while encrypted private chats remain unaffected.

Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu has weighed in on the ongoing controversy surrounding WhatsApp's encryption claims, pointing to a fundamental conflict of inter.