OpenAI is backing a new artificial-intelligence startup that aims to build software allowing so-called AI agents to communicate and solve complex problems in industries such as finance and biotech.

Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn’t get a handle on the bots overrunning its site. On Wednesday, Reddit said it’s taking on the challenge itself. The company will begin ...

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Meta, the company behind some of the world’s most popular social media platforms, just scooped up a new site – for bots. Meta has acquired Moltbook, the social media network where AI agents interact ...

It's been a rough couple of months for Fortnite fans since Epic Games enabled creative island creators to offer in-game transactions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of the drama centers on a single ...

Update: Astro Bot is now out of stock at Amazon, but Walmart has price-matched the deal. The original article continues below. This is 45% off its full list price of $59.99, but more importantly, it ...

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 ...

Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

After rolling out account verification for brands and individual users, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman writes in a letter to shareholders that the platform is trying to make it easier to identify bots, too.

A new social network called Moltbook has been created for AIs, allowing machines to interact and talk to each other. Within hours of the platform launching, the AIs appeared to have created their own ...

Can computer programs have faith? Can they conspire against the humans that created them? Or feel melancholy? On a social media platform built just for artificial intelligence bots, some of them are ...