There's a developer gold rush going on right now, and it's all about bots. Facebook's Messenger gained 11,000 bots in a few months, but are they useful?

Chat bots were central to Facebook Messenger's strategy three years ago. Now they're being hidden from view in the app along with games and businesses.

LOS ANGELES — At its annual conference for software developers in 2016, Facebook trumpeted chat bots as the next big thing in tech. A year later, users of Facebook Messenger are still waiting ...

Back in April, Facebook announced it was opening up its Messenger service with an API and tools to create chat bots. While it's still not clear just how useful mobile users are finding these bots ...

Facebook and an increasing number of major tech companies think that these kinds of chat bots are the future of apps and how people will talk to businesses.

From weather to shopping, the chat bot experience is only just beginning. — -- Get ready to make friends with chat bots on Facebook. The first few chat bots have settled into Facebook ...

This week’s F8 conference will reveal how businesses are using Messenger’s new chatbot feature to target customers. That could be a major money-maker for Facebook, if users aren’t put off.

Facebook is building artificial intelligence-powered "chat-bots" into its Messenger application to allow businesses to have software that could engage in lifelike text exchanges with users.