Bots Archive

Respond Software raises $20 million for ‘decision bots’ that emulate human security analysts

Respond software, a cybsersecurity platform that automates decision-making through emulating human reasoning, has raised $20 million in a series B round of funding led by ClearSky Security, with participation from CRV and Foundation Capital. Founded out of Mountain View, California, in 2016, Respond Software touts its robotic

Troll factories, bots and fake news: Inside the Wild West of social media

The US Congress is investigating how the Russians used Facebook, Twitter and Google to wage information warfare during the 2016 presidential campaign, and a special counsel is looking into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin in its digital strategies. There is also growing concern that

Microsoft waves magic Wand to make chat bots higher

Microsoft has made every other acquisition, snapping up Wand Labs so as to bolster its chat bot efforts. Wand Labs is a messaging app developer that become based in 2013 and has chops relating ‘conversational intelligence’. you are possibly acquainted with conversation as a Platform, a term

Microsoft’s new subservient Skype bots fetch information in seconds

You may have noticed Microsoft making a big song and dance about AI bots at its Buildconference last week. The company has now introduced a few of them to Skype, with two further offerings now being brought to the messaging service. So what do the new Skype

Microsoft’s Bots could be its biggest contribution to computing since Windows

On stage at its annual Build conference keynote, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella painted a picture of our lives being made easier with bots, intelligent agents that live within apps and services. But, would that life be much better, or less connected than it already is – or