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 ...

Facebook Messenger will soon get a lot more crowded. There are more than 10,000 developers building bots for Facebook's messaging platform, Messenger's head of product said in an interview Tuesday.

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Welcome to the wechat-ification of Facebook. Wechat is a one stop app for everything from buying movie tickets to paying your phone bill to recharging your subway card to booking a doctor's ...

Real human friends are soon to be out-of-date in Silicon Valley. Instead, your new social media friend will be an artificial intelligence bot, according to one executive from Meta, Facebook and ...

FB disclosed that it has over 11k chatbots and 23k developers in the pipeline for its chatbot. Positive implication in that bots drive better user engagement and experience. Potential long-term ...

As well as chatting to people on Facebook, you'll soon be conversing with 'bots', i.e. computers that use artificial intelligence to sound like humans. The aim is that firms will use bots to help ...

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.

Facebook is making it easier than ever for brands to lure you into chatting with them. The social network rolled out a new type of ad on Tuesday that lets advertisers with or without Messenger bots ...

Adi Robertson is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Facebook wants to ...

Facebook is developing a bot universe to simulate the interactions of real users, potentially giving the platform a proactive method of combating trolls, scammers and rule-breakers. This shadow ...