Rajan Anandan 500 Startups invest in chatbot tool Bottr.me

Chatbot creation tool Bottr.me has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from 500 Startups, Purvi Capital, Google India`s managing director Rajan Anandan, and Abhishek Gupta from TLabs, according to a company executive.

Source: VCCircle

Freshdesk owner Freshworks acquires Joe Hukum as it plans a move into chatbots

After raising $55 million last year to build its business beyond its existing help desk services, today Freshworks (the parent company of Freshdesk) has made an acquisition to help it fill out that strategy.

Source: Tech Crunch

AI And Chatbots Are Transforming The Customer Experience

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dramatically changing business, and chatbots, fueled by AI, are becoming a viable customer service channel. The best ones deliver a customer experience (CX) in which customers cannot tell if they are communicating with a human or a computer.

Source: Fobes

8 Founders on the Turning Points That Changed Their Businesses

Hard work can pay off -- if you know how to seize the right moments. Every entrepreneur has the moment -- that time when hard work finally pays off, when a long-desired opportunity presents itself and the entrepreneur has to decide how to react.

Source: Entrepreneur

The 25 tech companies everyone wants to work for right now

Tech is one of the hottest industries out there.

Source: Business Insider

Inside the bizarre human job of being a face for artificial intelligence

Some people are famous only among fans of a particular sport, a specific age group, or their hometown locals. Lauren Hayes, a 27-year-old model and entrepreneur, is famous at the automation software company IPsoft.

Source: Quartz

How NATO wants to use artificial intelligence in decision making

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) believes in incorporating artificial intelligence in its decision-making process, a senior official told CNBC.

Source: CNBC

Rulai launches low-code chatbot development tool and raises $6.5 million

Customer experience chatbot developer Rulai has launched a new "low-code" chatbot development tool and raised $6.5 million to roll it out.

Source: TC

Google to mentor 6 more Indian startups in AI, Machine Learning

The Internet giant Google on Wednesday said it will mentor six more Indian startups in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) at its developers' launchpad in San Francisco from July 17.

Source: YOURSTORY

Bing launches bots for local businesses

Bots are created automatically from data in Bing Places and will soon work with Facebook Messenger and Cortana.

Source: Search Engine Land

How brands will connect to customers through voicebots

Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant have dramatically simplified how humans can interact with brands to complete everyday tasks, from ordering a coffee or pizza to paying a credit card bill, through a simple voice interface.

Source: VB

Telegram 4.0 released with video message support, Telescope and Bot Payments

In the new version of Telegram messenger 4.0 introduces video messaging, payments for robots, Telescope and platform Instant View.

Source: clicklancashire

Distil Networks acquires "Are You A Human"

Distil Networks has acquired Are You A Human for an undisclosed amount. Are You A Human uses a range of technologies to determine the difference between humans and bots.

Source: Enterprise Times

Telegram now lets users buy things from chatbots in its messaging app

Messaging app Telegram has dropped a major update today that sees its service gain support for chatbot payments. It has also added short video messages and new design options for its Instant View reading mode.

Source: TC

Why R-GA and Reply.ai Created A Custom Bot Maker For Small Businesses

BotBot is like a Squarespace for bots, allowing anyone to build a Facebook chatbot right from their mobile phone.

Source: Fast Company

Google quietly debuts Chatbase, a chatbot analytics platform

Just ahead of Google's I/O event kicking off later today, some details have leaked out about a new service that Google is launching for developers that are building chatbots. TechCrunch has learned that Google has developed a new service called Chatbase, which provides analytics and suggestions for how to "fix" bot experiences to make them better for users.

Source: TC

Google is using AI to create never-before-heard musical instruments

Maybe we'll all be using synth sounds built by robots soon?

Source: Factmag

The Partnership on AI adds Intel, Salesforce and others as it formalizes Grand Challenges and work groups

Intel, Salesforce, eBay, Sony, SAP, McKinsey & Company, Zalando and Cogitai are joining the Partnership on AI, a collection of companies and non-profits that have committed to sharing best practices and communicating openly about the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence research. The new members will be working alongside existing partners that include Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Apple.

Source: TC