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It’s been a year since Facebook announced the launch of chatbots on Messenger, and although bots have not yet been perfected, they’ve had a huge impact in the way modern consumers interact with brands ...

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.

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 ...

There has been a lot of talk about Facebook’s new Messenger bots — but how and why do you actually use them? "Business communication is what a lot of people dread the most,” says Peter Martinazzi, ...

If your love for a song has caused you to drop the infamous “heart eyes” emoji in a text or social media post, Apple’s latest addition to Facebook Messenger may be the technical innovation you’ve been ...

Ever wanted to own a pet monkey? Well, now you can — kind of –thanks to the Yahoo Monkey Pets bot, which is now available on Facebook Messenger. Okay, it’s not a real pet monkey, but it’s as close as ...

On Tuesday the Washington Post entered the fray with its own messenger bot — a bot that focuses, for now, on top stories, election news and (soon) Olympics alerts. What’s unclear, though, as The Verge ...

In the latest event in the Obama administration’s full-scale embrace of social media, the White House announced on Wednesday that the public can now send President Barack Obama a message via Facebook ...