Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

One of the weirdest corners of the Internet is suddenly hard to find on Bing, after the search engine inexplicably started blocking approximately 1.5 million independent websites hosted on Neocities.

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 ...

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.

On the same day, Adobe, Microsoft, and the Maharashtra government revealed notable AI chatbot initiatives, underscoring rapid advances in the field. Adobe began public beta testing of its Firefly ...

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 ...