More than 45,000 developers are now using the Microsoft Bot Framework, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday. This makes it one of the most popular ways to create a bot, in part because of its ...

Microsoft is building an assistant bot that, at least on the surface, looks quite similar to the just-announced Google Assistant bot. Called "Bing Concierge Bot," the coming productivity agent will be ...

During Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote address at the company’s Ignite cloud conference on Monday, he brought out a number of Microsoft employees to demo various features. But for a demo ...

Tomorrow, Facebook is expected to roll out new bot-related programming interfaces and possibly new chatbots of its own at its F8 developer conference. Microsoft recently used its own Build developer ...

They'll even get their own marketplace, the "M365 Agent Store," where businesses can buy and deploy digital workers as easily ...

Conversational bots, which can understand complex voice commands and complete tasks for you, are quickly becoming the rage. Earlier this month, the inventors of Siri showed off their creation Viv, ...

This year, we’ve watched Apple, Google, Facebook, Samsung, Microsoft, and many other tech giants make acquisitions or launch products to get into the bot business. They’re building bot ecosystems ...

Microsoft today is unveiling new artificial intelligence technology that’s something of an artist – a “drawing bot.” The bot is capable of creating images from text descriptions of an object, but it ...

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