The Sacramento Kings are getting a new app to go with their new arena.
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Sacramento Kings app lets you hail an Uber and talk to a chat bot

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The NBA’s Sacramento Kings are getting a new mobile app to go with their new basketball arena, the Golden 1 Center.

The app will serve as a fan’s “remote control” for the high-tech arena, which cost $534 million to build and opens on October 1. The iOS and Google Play app gives fans all of the traditional updates on the team and arena information. In a professional-sports-team first, KAI (Kings Artificial Intelligence) — the team’s intelligent messaging chatbot powered by JiffyBots— will be featured in the app to answer questions about the team and venue.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.