Facebook has bold ambitions for its Messenger platform, following the announcement of new features, services and the launch of bots—chat-based interfaces designed to simulate human conversation and to ...

Real human friends are soon to be out-of-date in Silicon Valley. Instead, your new social media friend will be an artificial intelligence bot, according to one executive from Meta, Facebook and ...

Those are descriptions from federal politicians and child-safety advocates of the “sensual” and “romantic” chats Meta allowed its artificial intelligence bots on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to ...

This past week, news that AI agents were self-organizing on a social media platform called Moltbook brought forth breathless headlines about the coming robot rebellion. “A social network for AI ...

Facebook today announced that its bot platform has been used to create 300,000 bots. That's up from a 100,000 bots milestone reached at the annual developer conference last year. Roughly 200,000 ...