Today’s intelligent assistants are full of skills. They can check the weather, traffic and sports scores. They can play music, translate words and send text messages. They can even do math, tell jokes ...

Microsoft has acquired Semantic Machines, a “conversational AI” startup in Berkeley, Calif., to further its work in building machines that can converse naturally with humans. Semantic aims to advance ...

Microsoft officials haven't talked much about how the company planned to use technology from its 2018 Semantic Machines acquisition-- until this week, that is. At Build 2019, which kicks off May 6, ...

At Microsoft’s annual developer conference Monday, CEO Satya Nadella showed a video of a more conversational, and more functional, Cortana assistant. This new Cortana seemed able to follow the ...

Microsoft’s latest acquisition, conversational artificial intelligence (AI) startup Semantic Machines, aims to make digital assistants and bots sound more human. The companies didn’t disclose the ...

Microsoft buys Semantic Machines to push its AI ambitions forward The Redmond, California, company has bought the Berkeley-based Semantic Machines, the company has announced in a blog post.

Earlier this month at its I/O developer conference, Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) subsidiary Google wowed everyone by demonstrating a new conversational artificial intelligence (AI) ...