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Amazon, IBM, and other tech giants want to pay you to create bots

5 bots to try this week: Angry Shakespeare, Hardwell, Trulia, Dinner Ideas, and TagOpp

Why IBM wants you to build bots that talk to each other

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Niki.ai’s new Messenger bot lets you hail cabs and order snacks in India

How the biggest bot platforms, startups, and investors are working on common tech standards

Polly.ai raises $1.2 million to help companies poll their employees

Prisma for iOS now works offline

5 bots to try this week: BFF Trump, FutureStates, Bits, Sensay, and The Fixer

Amazon to reportedly offer Echo-only streaming music for $5 a month

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Local deals startup Retale launches a Facebook Messenger bot

Fox News launches a Facebook Messenger bot you can’t talk to

Prisma bot and other A.I.-powered photo filters you’ve got to try

New Pokémon Go bot ‘automates the entire game’

BotBeat: This week’s top bot stories

The bot that beat 170,000 tickets launches in Seattle next week, then San Francisco

Sports Illustrated Olympics bots now on Facebook, Slack

Ford will make autonomous vehicles without steering wheels by 2021

Facebook Messenger now lets chatbots send promotions and subscription-based messages

5 chatbots worth trying this week: Smart Notes, Jimmie, Machaao, Stay Woke, and Cleo

Why Bill Gates would like Prepathon’s new education chatbots

Twilio CEO: Trump represents ‘a fascist style of leadership’

API.ai helps bots on different platforms share machine learning

BotBeat: This week’s top bot stories

President Obama now has a Facebook Messenger bot

Marketing platform Boomtrain acquires Nudgespot, will create Boomtrain Messenger

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Rhizabot gives salespeople immediate access to deep data

Koko raises $2.5 million to put human empathy inside every virtual assistant

Chat company Smooch raises $7.6 million

Slack Fund-backed Awesome.ai shuts down

BotBeat: This week’s top bot stories

Trulia Facebook Messenger bot can find you an apartment to rent

Nucleus touchscreen intercom is now for sale, featuring Alexa

Skype taps StubHub and IFTTT to create chatbots for ticket sales and IoT

Kik has stockpiled more than 20,000 bots in the chat platform ‘arms race’

These 5 chatbots have saved people more than $10 million

AskRio2016 helps Olympic Games fans get around Rio

This interracial dating app is about more than love
