Last year, Hasbro debuted one of its most unusual and interesting Transformers collaborations ever with the Transformers x NFL series, which featured four new bots inspired by iconic NFL teams. That ...

Peter Bell is the founder of Gather.dev, a professional network for chief technology officers, who uses AI agents in place of people for certain roles at his startup. He has gone so far as giving ...

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.

Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window-cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is the antithesis of the robotics industry right now. While many companies are trying to ...

Microsoft says Teams will soon automatically tag third-party bots in lobbies, allowing organizers to control whether they can join meetings. As detailed in a new Microsoft 365 roadmap entry, 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 ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

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 ...

Mark Martel, a retiree in Silicon Valley, likes to keep tabs on what’s new with AI, noting with interest advancements like large language models and coding bots. This week’s top posts on an AI-focused ...

Imagine synthetic bacterial supplements that could regulate the gut microbiome, controlled via Bluetooth to treat conditions from irritable bowel syndrome to depression. What could go wrong? Annaliese ...