API
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American Petroleum Institute. Also A.P.I.
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Computers. application programming (or program) interface: a set of protocols used by programmers to create applications for a specific operating system or to interface between the different modules of an application.
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The EU said it began its investigation, in December 2025, after Meta banned third-party general-purpose AI assistants from the WhatsApp for Business API.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
Two days after its release, Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, posted on X that the API would be launching shortly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Zuckerberg also said companies come to Meta every week asking it to establish an API service.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Citing its recent string of compute deals, the company raised usage limits for its Claude Code tool and API rate limits for the Claude Opus reasoning model.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
This is a glimpse of the API at work in the game.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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