I started the game confident. The goal was simple: beat my own chess bot in under five minutes. Then it played the Cow Opening — and I completely underestimated it. I thought I had a dream position, ...

Crypto gambling bots offer an innovative way to automate betting strategies in online casinos and sports betting platforms. These bots can analyze data, execute bets, and optimize your chances of ...

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 ...

Sex bots are having a moment, and for good reason. From customizable personalities and NSFW roleplay to emotional support and AI-generated art, today’s AI sex platforms deliver a new kind of intimacy ...

They’re canceling the robot apocalypse — for now at least. The AI bots who were supposedly caught predicting mankind’s downfall by 2047 were little more than Internet trolls roleplaying as machines ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nicki Minaj’s MAGA turn has been partly fueled by an army of bot accounts on X, according to a new report shared with Politico. Put together by the disinformation company Cyabra, the report analyzed ...

On Friday, developer Ian Langworth released SpaceMolt, a free, text-based, space-themed multiplayer online game. But it's not for you—it's exclusively for AI agents. Humans cannot play SpaceMolt; they ...