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Bot evangelist Chris Messina leaves Uber

Pope Francis has a Facebook Messenger bot, and it’s kind of funny

LaMetric Air displays home air quality, humidity, temperature, and more

Ford to bring Amazon’s Alexa to millions of cars already on the road

Slack invests in 11 bot startups to seed its platform

HoloLamp brings you augmented reality without glasses

Telegram Messenger now lets you delete sent messages within 48 hours

Google’s AI assistant has 5 New Year’s resolutions for you

Keep your New Year’s resolutions with help from these bots

Amazon won the 2016 chat wars, but Microsoft isn’t far behind

Slack loses another executive, head of platform products Jason Shellen

Apple needs to fix its sticker problem or it risks losing big in the chat wars

The 10 best iMessage apps of 2016

10 Alexa skills for your new Echo, ranked by popularity

What Siri can and cannot do on a Mac

Track Santa with Google Home and Amazon’s Alexa

Eva bot wants to send gifts to your business clients

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Howdy brings bCRM to its Botkit to manage marketing campaigns for Slack and Facebook Messenger

Prisma gets social with new location-based photo feed

Expedia launches Skype bot, with Cortana skill coming soon

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Varo Money prepares to take on millennial fintech services with a bot named Val

Kik chat app now makes group video calls

What Google, Microsoft, and Amazon did this week in the race to be everyone’s favorite virtual assistant

Microsoft gives away 100,000 questions and answers to advance virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Cortana

Bold, like Medium for companies, opens its platform to the public and launches a Slack bot

Google Home launches support for WebMD, Quora, Domino’s, and dozens more

American Eagle’s Aerie launches a bot for bra shopping

Facebook is testing suggested responses in its M assistant

With Delivery.com and Kip, groups can vote on where to go for lunch

Wynn Las Vegas to put an Amazon Echo in every hotel room by summer 2017

OV puts Amazon’s Alexa inside wireless headphones

Facebook Live will support 360-degree videos by early 2017

Mall of America gets an IBM Watson-powered bot for holiday shopping

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Sam’s Club launches a ‘gift genie’ on Facebook Messenger to help you play Santa

Actions on Google platform launches for Google Home

Telegram launches on IFTTT with 31 integrations

Facebook Workplace launches a new platform to compete in the work-app wars

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