BotBeat: This week's top bot stories

VentureBeat's Bots Channel tracks all the important and interesting news related to the exploding field of bots and messaging. And each week we select the top stories and present them in in our free weekly newsletter, BotBeat. We include news stories by VentureBeat staff, guest articles from leading figures in the bots community and a good number of posts from a wide variety of outlets. You can subscribe to our BotBeat newsletter to receive all this information in your inbox every Thursday. The story most likely to be seen in your social media stream this week may have been this one about a bot that lets you ghost undesirable dates.