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While his feet may have been in Sydney, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s head was firmly in the clouds. Or rather, his own cloud — the company’s cloud computing service Azure. In Australia for a Microsoft Developers conference, Nadella laid out his main theories for the digital future: Mobile-first and cloud-first.

Chatbots are the hot new trend that’s got marketers excited this year. Their success comes from the confluence of two separate trends – the massive growth in the popularity of chat apps (which is in turn driven by the rise of mobile & social), and the development of ever more

Sisense, a company which helps customers link multiple data sources and summarize them in a single dashboard view, has not shied away from experimenting with new ways of interacting with the data inside its business intelligence product. Earlier this year, it announced integration with the Amazon Echo, enabling users to simply ask

We are thrilled by the surprisingly large number of bots, tools, channels and the overall vibrancy and excitement within the developer community since our launch of Bot Framework on Github in March. The democratization of AI and the advancement of conversational canvasses are well underway. For software developers, creating a

Microsoft is making available a preview of a new Azure service meant to hasten the development of bots using the Microsoft Bot Framework. Microsoft announced the Azure Bot Service preview on November 15. The service is built on Azure Functions, its serverless compute service, which allows bots to scale on

Pushing ahead with their efforts to evolve Messenger into an eCommerce and brand engagement platform, Facebook has today announced the introduction of new analytics tools for Messenger Bots in order to provide more insight for bot makers and brands, helping streamline and improve the bot connection process. An extension of

We are at an incredible moment in technology history. Thanks to cloud computing power, more advanced algorithms and the availability of massive amounts of data, the artificial intelligence (AI) field has exploded – allowing computer scientists to create technology many of us only dreamed about just a few years ago.

Walk This Way, In da Club, and Detroit Rock City are songs of fire and energy and so it was only natural that bots for their creators — Aerosmith, 50 Cent, and Kiss, respectively — were a central part of Octane AI’s recent launch. This week the bot creation platform moves up

Facebook announced today that it will be opening up a developer platform for chatbot builders named FbStart, in the spirit of hallmark Facebook simplicity. This can be expected to add many bouncing baby bots to the 34,000 already available for use on the Messenger platform, and aid in the improvement of existing solutions.

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research non-profit backed by Tesla’s Elon Musk, Y Combinator’s Sam Altman, a Donald Trump fan called Peter Thiel, and numerous other tech luminaries, is partnering with Microsoft to tackle the next set of challenges in the still-nascent field. OpenAI will also make Microsoft Azure its preferred cloud

Facebook on Monday began letting interactive “bots” inside its Messenger service tap into analytic capabilities once reserved for the social network, ramping up the potential to earn money from e-commerce. The move comes as Facebook is under pressure to profit from services such as Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram, having recently

Facebook wants to give the bots a jolt. Earlier this year at F8, the social network’s most important conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed a big investment in chatbots, which use artificial intelligence to allow people to text with the software to help them do things like schedule calendar meetings or

There are too many apps. And many are too similar. But we’re not saying we no longer need apps. Maybe we just don’t need new ones anymore because there are already millions of them. Sometimes, too many choices is just too much. Ultimately, you get to the point where you

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears…in…rain. Time to die.” — Roy Batty, Blade Runner Artificial intelligence has fascinated mankind

Facebook has been putting a lot of effort into growing Messenger as a bot platform this year, and now there are 34,000 of them in existence, built to automatically give you news and entertainment, let you shop, and more, expanding Messenger’s use beyond simple chats with friends. Today, that strategy is getting a significant boost: