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 became the latest high-profile convert to the bots cause, announcing bot support for its Messenger platform. The company follows Microsoft, which talked up the potential of bots at its recent ...

Sophia the robot just made headlines by being the first artificial-intelligence-powered robot to get honorary citizenship from Saudi Arabia. This makes me feel like it’s time for us to embrace the ...

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 ...

As expected, at the Facebook F8 developer conference, the world’s largest social network announced that bots have come to Facebook Messenger. And the launch of a bot-enabled Messenger platform may ...

Facebook Messenger is launching appointment booking for the Messenger bot platform today. The feature will be available for Messenger's 300,000 bots and could help spur bot adoption among the 40 ...