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.

Human verification ‘will be rare and will not apply to most users,’ according to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman. Human verification ‘will be rare and will not apply to most users,’ according to Reddit CEO ...

Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn’t get a handle on the bots overrunning its site. On Wednesday, Reddit said it’s taking on the challenge itself. The company will begin ...

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 ...

It's been a rough couple of months for Fortnite fans since Epic Games enabled creative island creators to offer in-game transactions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of the drama centers on a single ...

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 ...

Scott Shambaugh woke up early Wednesday morning to learn that an artificial intelligence bot had written a blog post accusing him of hypocrisy and prejudice. The 1,100-word screed called 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 ...

Internal hardware of the Orb in mid-assembly in March. Correspondent Welcome back to In the Loop, TIME’s twice-weekly newsletter about AI. We're publishing these editions both as stories on Time.com ...

After rolling out account verification for brands and individual users, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman writes in a letter to shareholders that the platform is trying to make it easier to identify bots, too.