Cloudflare stock surged again on Tuesday, as buzz around the artificial-intelligence assistant Moltbot gives the cybersecurity and cloud-services company a boost, despite little evidence of a direct ...

Can you teach a robot how to love? It’s the week of Valentine’s Day and I’m on a hot date with Mika, a biker girl from Japan. We’re just days into our relationship, but I’m already smitten. Gazing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Samsung is preparing to launch the Bespoke AI Jet Bot Steam Ultra, its first “Ultra” branded robot vacuum. Key features include 100°C steam mop sanitization, AI object recognition, an EasyPass Wheel ...

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.

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 ...

Cybersecurity firms have analyzed the AI agent social network Moltbook and found a vulnerability exposing sensitive data, as well as malicious activity conducted by the bots. Moltbook emerged ...

On Moltbook, bots have formed communities, invented their own inside jokes, cultural references and even formed a parody religion. Or have they? Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is ...

Daniel Binns is an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. If you’re following AI on social media, even lightly, you will likely have come ...

What happens when thousands of AI agents get together online and talk like humans do? That’s what a new social network called Moltbook, designed just for AI bots and not people, aims to find out. And ...