Facebook today announced that its bot platform has been used to create 300,000 bots. That's up from a 100,000 bots milestone reached at the annual developer conference last year. Roughly 200,000 ...

Facebook today announced its Discover tab for finding featured bots and brands will be rolled out to Messenger users in the United States in the coming days. The Discover tab breaks up these ...

If you still think chat bots for Messenger are a passing fad, think again: Facebook announced Monday that Analytics for Apps now support bots, and bot developers are welcome in its FbStart program.

Bots have quickly taken over multiple spaces in the past two years, and companies choosing to climb on the chatbot train have continued to grow. The fever pitch of bot-mania has shown no signs of ...

How many of your Facebook friends are robots? Unless you play squash with a T-1000 or are distant relations with GERTY, we’d imagine not many. But that’s about to change fast thanks to Facebook’s new ...

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.

Bots are nothing new. In one form or another, they have been around for years. The term comes from a Czech word, robota, meaning 'forced labor'. The word robot first appeared in a 1920 play by Czech ...