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BotBeat: This week’s top bot stories

Space chickens and other strange pictures people have sent to WTF Is That bot

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Lunch preorder startup Allset now on Facebook Messenger

Flok uses Bluetooth and chatbots to lure people inside thousands of small businesses

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Why the U.S. government, Alaska Airlines, and Amtrak may soon launch Facebook chatbots

Tina the Tyrannosaurus rex chatbot wants to teach your kids a thing or two

The Kukie bot teaches you how to build a startup

This Donald Trump chatbot is great… really, really great. It’s unbelievable.

It’s now a little easier to find chatbots to talk to on Skype for iOS

IBM’s Watson and Macy’s team up to make in-store shopping assistant

The mental health tracker Joy wants to get more people professional help

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CNN, one of the first news orgs on a major bot platform, launches on Kik

BuzzFeed releases a chatbot for the Republican National Convention

Conversable’s big week at the intersection of bots, business, and government

Facebook has apparently hired a key WeChat employee

By learning how to drive a robot, Button.ai won the popular vote of international botathon

How a 15 year old won the first international botathon

This ambitious Slack bot wants to bring together the entire developer ecosystem

Kasisto’s chatbot will soon trade stock on Facebook Messenger

Kore unveils an enterprise bot platform and assistant

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Bot maker ManyChat wants to replace email newsletters

Japanese delivery giant Yamato’s Line chatbot lets you schedule deliveries

Mezi’s human-assisted travel agent bot cannot fail, founders claim

The Washington Post launches a Facebook Messenger chatbot, SMS version coming

Y Combinator-backed Mosaic connects wearables, Internet of Things

Microsoft CEO: Chatbots will ‘fundamentally revolutionize’ computing

Recruitment chatbot Mya automates 75% of hiring process

Cisco partners with bot makers Gupshup and API.ai

Skype chatbots now work in group chats

BotBeat: This week’s top bot stories

You can now share Kik bot experiences with friends

The sorts of things people say to a prayer chatbot

What ManyChat learned after the creation of 170,000 bots

Bot that’s like Chatroulette for Facebook Messenger hits 250,000 users in 3 weeks

Saiborg bot wants to help you move to Vietnam

5 bots that could change democracy

You can now ask Alexa to order millions of products on Amazon
