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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Last Wednesday, 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 was ...

A brand new social media network has taken the internet by storm. But instead of focusing on high-value, human-created content, the network, dubbed Moltbook, turns the equation on its head by putting ...

The cost of doing business has always been an issue for smaller companies. You might hire a software developer, pay office rental fees, and run a social media campaign. Then, you suddenly realize your ...

Tennessee DoorDash customers could soon have their orders delivered by robots, On Wednesday, the Tennessee Senate’s Transportation and Safety committee voted to advance a bill that would allow ...

The first signs of the apocalypse might look a little like Moltbook: a new social-media platform, launched last week, that is supposed to be populated exclusively by AI bots—1.6 million of them and ...

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 ...

The hottest club is always the one you can’t get into. So when I heard about Moltbook—an experimental social network designed just for AI agents to post, comment, and follow each other while humans ...