In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

Scott Shambaugh woke up early Wednesday morning to learn that an artificial intelligence bot had written a blog post accusing him of hypocrisy and prejudice. The 1,100-word screed called the ...

Website owners are reporting a sharp spike in the number of bots visiting their platforms in recent months. While the bots’ function is unclear, experts say they could represent an attempt to scrape ...

From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China. When he first noticed the traffic spike, Quintero ...

Filippo Menczer receives funding from Knight Foundation, National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, and Air Force Office of Scientific Research. We were able to identify these ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform's data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

Moltbook is a groundbreaking social platform where only AI agents can actively post, comment, and interact, while humans are relegated to observers. The platform flips traditional social networks, ...

If your Messages inbox is catching a lot of stray, unwanted messages, we'll show you how to filter, report, and block spam messages on iOS 26. At WWDC 2025, Apple announced that it would be bringing ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

Mark Martel, a retiree in Silicon Valley, likes to keep tabs on what’s new with AI, noting with interest advancements like large language models and coding bots. This week’s top posts on an AI-focused ...

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