If you are building on the WhatsApp Business API in 2026, the pricing model looks completely different from what it was a year ago. Meta replaced the old conversation-based pricing with a per-message model on July 1, 2025, introduced volume-based tiers that reward high-volume senders, and announced a max-price bidding system for marketing messages arriving […]
Sometimes a customer does not want a bot. The issue is urgent, or confusing, or emotional, and they want to hear a real person. In that moment, the worst experience you can offer is a phone number that drops them out of your app, into a dialer, and onto hold with a “your call is
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When a customer has a question inside your app, the gap between “I need help” and “I got help” decides whether they stay or leave. Send them to an email form and you have lost them for hours. Point them at an FAQ page and you have made them do the work. Make them call
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If you are building a Flutter app and need chat inside it, the good news is you do not have to build the hard parts yourself. A mature ecosystem of chat SDKs handles real-time delivery, message storage, typing indicators, and UI, so you can ship in days instead of months. The harder question is which
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Building a chatbot has always meant opening a builder, dragging blocks, and wiring a flow by hand. Useful, but it pulls you out of the place where you do your thinking. Today we are changing that. ChatMaxima MCP lets you build, edit, and test ChatMaxima chatbots straight from the AI assistant you already use, whether
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On June 16, 2026, the Government of India ordered a temporary, nationwide restriction on Telegram. The Telegram channel ban in India runs until June 22 and is tied directly to the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination scheduled for June 21. This is one of the most significant platform-level actions a major messaging app has faced in
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A frontier model can go from launch to unreachable in the same week. A pricing change, a region lock, a new export rule, or a single regulatory directive can pull a capability that millions of businesses depend on, and there is nothing a customer can do about it from the outside. This is the uncomfortable
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On June 12, 2026, a WhatsApp Business API and Instagram API outage hit businesses worldwide as Meta suffered a major global disruption that knocked Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger offline for millions of users. The disruption started around 8:00 PM IST (shortly before 10am ET), and within minutes outage trackers lit up worldwide. Facebook bore
Most support questions are not hard. They are repetitive. Where is my order, how do I reset my password, what are your hours, how do I upgrade my plan. The same handful of questions, asked thousands of times, each one pulling a human agent away from the work that actually needs a person. A text
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Typing is the slowest way humans communicate, and it is especially clumsy on a phone. Your customer is driving, cooking, holding a baby, or simply in a hurry, and you are asking them to thumb-type a support question into a tiny text box. No wonder so many give up and churn instead. A voice AI
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