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 ...

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 ...

Chat bots, we’re told, are the future: Microsoft has declared them the next big thing, believing they could have as much of an impact as the introduction of touchscreen phones or web browsers.

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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 ...