Bots are taking over the web, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. In an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin this week, he said that with the speed at which artificial intelligence is ...

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 ...

Ryan Transportation and Bot Auto agreed to launch driverless freight service this spring on the overnight Houston–Dallas-Fort Worth lane. The companies say the 200-mile corridor is difficult for human ...

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission. “No bot detection. No selector maintenance. No Cloudflare ...

Anthropic updated its crawler documentation this week, clarifying how its Claude bots access websites and how you can block them. Why we care. If you publish or own content, you want control over how ...

Anthropic now lists separate bots for training and search, while also running user-requested fetchers for browsing. Blocking search bots has direct discoverability consequences. Anthropic warns ...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI, and the open-source bot is becoming a foundation, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Sunday. "Peter Steinberger is joining ...

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 ...

Quite a fuss has been made about Moltbook, the online chatroom launched to great fanfare last month. At first glance, it looks like Reddit and other such sites, said The Economist. Users post about ...

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 ...