We experimented and tinkered with numerous bots that are available for Slack, the cloud messaging service meant mainly for business. (You can still use Slack for non-work reasons, particularly under ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More While working on the beta version of Sprinterbot, we faced many ...

One of Slack‘s greatest appeals is that it’s so extensible. While its main purpose is group collaboration, add-on apps can do everything from answer questions about business analytics to offer project ...

Image from Unsplash user Joseph Chan. I’m somewhat taken aback when I mention Slack to someone in November of 2017 and am greeted with a blank look, followed by, “What’s that?” I forget that I live in ...

Slack, the popular workplace messaging app, has officially launched its Slack AI. An intelligent assistant, the bot is designed to make it easier to catch up on the ever-expanding list of work threads ...

Shared channels that allow two businesses to share a workspace in Slack was made available for the first time Tuesday, bringing businesses that collaborate closer together — but that could just be the ...

Slack is making it easier for people to interact with third-party services that integrate with its chat app with the launch of a new developer tool that lets bots add clickable buttons to their ...

Most chat bots are dumb. No one wants to message a soulless stack of if-then statements just to order a pizza when a half-decent app or website interface can do the same job in half the time. Chat ...

Popular chatbots commonly used today, such as Siri and Amazon Alexa, are examples of how far automated assistants have come. But they also show how far they still have to go. Some companies were ...

Salesforce has announced the acquisition of Troops.ai, a revenue and communications platform that uses Slack and Microsoft Teams bots to surface CRM data from platforms such as Salesforce. The ...

It was always a long shot. As I wrote last week, the dating app Feeld recently released a bot for the work-chat platform Slack, which alerts users who mutually expressed romantic interest that they ...