The recent victory of Google’s AlphaGo over top-tier Go champion Lee Sedol put artificial intelligence back in the public mind, and Google is at the top on the list of companies most likely to produce ...

A few years ago at its Build developer conference, Microsoft made its conversation as a service (CaaS) offerings the centerpiece of its announcements. This year, Microsoft made some solid advancements ...

Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Microsoft has launched a service for businesses to quickly and easily create a FAQ bot customers can chat with ...

Microsoft created an artificial-intelligence based chatbot named Tay to engage with young people on Twitter. But within hours of her debut Wednesday, the Internet had stolen the bot's innocence. The ...

The bot, Tay, has a thing for 18- to 24-year-olds because they're all about getting social on their phones. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hey, millennials: Microsoft wants to chat with you. Or its bot does, anyway. The Redmond company introduced tay.ai Wednesday, an emoji-fluent, snarky chat bot aimed at 18- to 24-year-olds in the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. The future is going to ...

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 ...

Microsoft introduced the Azure Bot Framework more than two years ago and companies have been building chatbots for a variety of scenarios ever since. Today, the company made generally available the ...

The chat bot had been sidelined after making racist comments. — -- Microsoft's millennial chat bot "Tay" made a brief reappearance on Twitter this morning but still didn't make a stellar ...