Facebook's Messenger bots have finally arrived. Following months of rumors, the company revealed its plan to allow businesses to build bots for Messenger Tuesday at Facebook's F8 developer conference ...

Facebook just moved one step closer toward making its bot ambitions a reality. Just months after introducing the first bots for Facebook Messenger at F8, the social network now counts more than 11,000 ...

Facebook is doing everything it can to increase the popularity of Messenger and to make every Facebook user use it. Recently, Facebook introduced features like sending money, booking Uber cabs (mostly ...

Apps are old school. Bots are the future. “Conversational UIs” will replace the web. That, in a nutshell, is the thinking behind a developer gold rush happening right now. Facebook announced bots for ...

Chatible, a bot that randomly connects anonymous Facebook Messenger users, has surpassed 250,000 users since its debut three weeks ago, according to creator Zain Amro. “I created Chatible because I ...

CNN and NBCUniversal’s Fandango are among the first in the media and entertainment biz to tap into Facebook Messenger “bots,” which let users get automated info from artificial-intelligence agents.

The big tech companies have long clung to the idea that their platforms are driven solely by the bias-free, objective realities of their algorithms. But of course the truth is more complicated: Behind ...

Spotify will be launching a bot for Facebook Messenger users that lets friends discover and share music directly in their chats. The bot, which takes advantage of Facebook’s soon-to-launch chat ...

Facebook today launched two powerful ways for people to find Messenger bots to use, addressing the discovery problem that’s plagued the platform’s 100,000 developers. TechCrunch reported last month ...

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