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 ...

The AI bot takeover of the internet continues apace, and the latest data suggests the surge is being driven less by model-training scrapes and more by the growing use of AI tools as a stand-in for web ...

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 ...

Google connects Gmail and Photos to AI Mode. Hostinger data shows AI training bots blocked while search bots expand. Mueller warns about free subdomain hosting. Welcome to the week’s SEO Pulse. This ...

(NewsNation) — A new social media platform designed exclusively for artificial intelligence, not humans, is raising the question of whether AI systems could be developing something resembling ...

You can talk to the chatbot like it's a friendly acquaintance, and it'll help you get a lot done. Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and ...

Editor's take: eBay has faced significant controversy in recent years. Now, the e-commerce giant is preparing to tackle "agentic shopping" and other aggressive AI-driven bots that compete with regular ...

Daniel Binns is an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. If you’re following AI on social media, even lightly, you will likely have come ...

What happens when thousands of AI agents get together online and talk like humans do? That's what a new social network called Moltbook, designed just for AI bots and not people, aims to find out. And ...

A group of researchers from Berkeley, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale warn that the rise of AI bots and AI agents could pose a serious threat to democracy. For example, power-hungry politicians ...

Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. In this photo illustration, a smartphone displays the Moltbook website homepage. In this photo illustration, a smartphone displays the Moltbook website homepage.

It’s the kind of back-and-forth found on every social network: One user posts about their identity crisis and hundreds of others chime in with messages of support, consolation and profanity. In the ...