Recent discussions of conversational artificial intelligence have raised serious questions about mental health. For some people who use these systems regularly, the interaction can feel meaningful and ...

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.

OpenAI is backing a new artificial-intelligence startup that aims to build software allowing so-called AI agents to communicate and solve complex problems in industries such as finance and biotech.

Bots are taking over the web, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. In an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin this week, he said that with the speed at which artificial intelligence is ...

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 ...

I couldn’t get past the uncanny valley of looking at an AI avatar listening to my answers. I couldn’t get past the uncanny valley of looking at an AI avatar listening to my answers. is The Verge’s ...

Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab. By Cade Metz ...

Meta, the company behind some of the world’s most popular social media platforms, just scooped up a new site – for bots. Meta has acquired Moltbook, the social media network where AI agents interact ...

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission. “No bot detection. No selector maintenance. No Cloudflare ...

Update: Astro Bot is now out of stock at Amazon, but Walmart has price-matched the deal. The original article continues below. This is 45% off its full list price of $59.99, but more importantly, it ...

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 ...