A new report found that bots have surpassed human internet traffic. HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic year-over-year.

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 ...

Reddit will verify if some users are human, but won't cross reference their ID with their Reddit account. Credit: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP via Getty Images Reddit CEO Steve Huffman caused a stir when ...

Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab. By Cade Metz ...

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 ...

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.

OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot and Clawdbot, has gone viral as an "AI that actually does things." Security experts have warned against joining the trend and using the AI assistant without caution ...

Humans have left the chat. AI bots now have their very own social network — and they’re ready to delete humanity. A revolutionary new social media platform called Moltbook debuted this week, giving AI ...

Cross Bot will analyze your games in Crossplay, a new two-player word game from The Times. By Asmaa Elkeurti Tom Giratikanon and Eve Washington New York Times Games has launched Crossplay, a new ...