It looks like Facebook is bringing a little more artificial intelligence to Messenger. While the “M” virtual assistant hasn’t enjoyed a very wide rollout just yet, Facebook is testing a new feature ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. Facebook M, the text-based ...

Facebook’s personal assistant experiment just got the ax before ever reaching a wide audience. Facebook recently confirmed that the beta version Facebook M will be discontinued on January 19, though ...

Facebook plans to deliver more than just social updates and photos with Facebook M, a new addition to Facebook Messenger that will take on personal assistant tools like Apple’s Siri, Google Now and ...

Today, a few hundred Bay Area Facebook users will open their Messenger apps to discover M, a new virtual assistant. Facebook will prompt them to test it with examples of what M can do: Make restaurant ...

It's official: Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is shuttering its virtual assistant, M. Launched in 2015, M was the company's response to the growing trend of virtual assistants. Facebook had hoped that M would ...

A virtual assistant feature incorporated into Facebook Messenger in 2015. Using human operators as well, M was created to find information, book travel and make reservations and suggestions. By 2018, ...

Facebook is in a strong position in the digital assistant race Digital assistants like Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Now all share one key thing in common: the more they know about you, ...

Facebook unveiled its M personal assistant yesterday, shelled out a few details and revealed that it was currently being beta-tested by a couple hundred random users in the Bay Area. The service is ...

Facebook's test release today of a digital assistant inside its Messenger app is a shot across the bow of the Internet's biggest companies: Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.com. It's also the ...

Facebook has revealed a new artificial intelligence robot, which sits in Messenger and chats to people and helps them buy things. The new service, called M, allows Facebook users to ask it questions ...