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 ...

Cloudflare can now auto-convert HTML to markdown at the network level. AI agents must request it using standard content negotiation headers. The feature is available in beta at no additional cost on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LLMs and AI Agents are reshaping how the web operates and how consumers interact with it. As AI-powered shopping assistants increasingly drive purchase decisions, retail sites are now serving a dual ...

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Artificial intelligence is shaking up industries from software and law to entertainment and education. And as physicians like Dr. Cem Aksoy are learning, it’s posing special challenges in medicine as ...

SAN FRANCISCO — At the end of January, Matt Schlicht, a technologist living in a small town just south of Los Angeles, launched a new social network called Moltbook. Like Facebook or Reddit, Moltbook ...

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, ...