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 ...

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.

Golden State Warriors fans now have a new tech-powered assistant at their disposal during the NBA Playoffs. The Bay Area-based NBA team rolled out a new Facebook Messenger bot today that will give ...

Facebook today filled the biggest hole in its chatbot platform. Messenger bots can accept payments natively without sending users to an external website, Facebook’s head of Messenger David Marcus ...

Facebook’s Messenger bots may not be having the impact the social network desired. Just yesterday, online retailer Everlane, one of the launch partners for the bot platform, announced it was ditching ...

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