The WhatsApp Business API lets your backend send and receive WhatsApp messages programmatically — order updates, OTPs, reminders, and support replies — instead of typing them in the WhatsApp Business app. This guide covers how it works end to end, so you…
This post walks through an architecture that holds up under real traffic, with the parts that usually break. At a high level there are five components: The rule that saves you later: the transport layer does nothing except normalise events…
WABetaInfo reported the feature on November 4, 2026, after identifying it in WhatsApp beta for Android version 2.26.44.6. The update builds on WhatsApp’s earlier topic-based threads for Meta AI conversations. Previously, users had to open the main Meta AI conversation and access a…
By Jonald Penpillo, AI developer and software engineer in General Santos City, Philippines. Most guests of a sports venue in the Philippines don't open a booking page. They open Facebook Messenger and type something like: magkano ang driving range That's…
The House of Representatives passed the Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026 on 28 October 2026, and TokenPost reported that the bill extends safety duties to AI chatbots. One amendment accepted by the government targets chatbot material or conduct that…
A rich guy had a very bad day on the internet. An embarrassing incident involving a flashy car went viral. TMZ picked it up, as did local news. On Reddit, one commenter called the centimillionaire a "douchebag." That's all according…
A WhatsApp "Export chat" file looks easy: one line per message, a date, a name, some text. I wrote a parser for it, then ran it on 28 real exports from public open-source repos plus generated files across 40+ locale and platform…
It's about 120 lines of TypeScript with no dependencies beyond Node 22, using WAPGROWAI's public API to send and its webhooks to hear about taps. The tests run the whole thing, HTTP server included, against a stubbed API, so they never send…
The snippets are small, self-contained versions of the patterns, and each was run against the cases shown. Every rule is a trigger, a filter and an action: AND inside groups and OR between them covers almost everything people ask for,…
None of this is particularly difficult to handle, but everything is easier to address before launch than after the first complaint. Tell People They Are Talking to a Machine Article 50 of the AI Act, applicable since 2 August 2026, requires people interacting…
APIs for omnichannel messaging, IVR, call center, and conversational AI bots.
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