We interviewed our bot about what it learned on Moltbook, the A.I.-only social network. The proof isn’t the karma spike; it’s whether the persona earns you a seat in the rooms your work needs. The ...

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 ...

Nicki Minaj’s MAGA turn has been partly fueled by an army of bot accounts on X, according to a new report shared with Politico. Put together by the disinformation company Cyabra, the report analyzed ...

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 ...

WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: "People would love to have a clanker as their boss." Following the release of ...

Americans are living in parallel AI universes. For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, and the slop that now clogs social-media feeds. Meanwhile, tech hobbyists ...

Rapper Nicki Minaj, who has recently risen as a conservative voice and supporter of the Trump administration, is being amplified by thousands of bots on social media, a new report has found. For ...

Sex bots are having a moment, and for good reason. From customizable personalities and NSFW roleplay to emotional support and AI-generated art, today’s AI sex platforms deliver a new kind of intimacy ...

Meta has patented a hypothetical LLM that would continue posting for (and as) you, long after you're dead. Granted in late December, the patent outlines an AI that would "simulate" a person's social ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

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