A recap: of the seven hopefuls I slipped into our bulk 2025 list of "Oh, that looks alright" games, only three actually ...

The robot walked over 2.5 full marathons in China. One robot just walked its way into history. Chinese robotics company AgiBot has set a new world record for the longest distance walked by a humanoid ...

Bot networks are now a brand problem, too. Coordinated webs of fake social-media personas have historically been the domain of fraudsters and state-based actors, such as the infamous Russian troll ...

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly reveals what it called “a striking shift in the nature of automated web traffic” with a recent analysis of traffic indicating that AI crawlers ...

A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using artificial intelligence to automatically reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump administration, ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

Federal prosecutors ripped down hundreds of artificial intelligence-generated phony social media accounts used by Russian operatives to create a "bot farm" that spread lies and pro-Vladimir Putin ...

I n her 35 years of teaching, Julie Brown has never seen anything like it. Fake students — bots, as she calls them — have been enrolling in her courses at an alarming rate. Last fall, the marketing ...

Welcome to the world of social media mind control. By amplifying free speech with fake speech, you can numb the brain into believing just about anything. Surrender your blissful ignorance and swallow ...

Bots are overwhelming social media, distorting engagement metrics, spreading misinformation, and eroding trust in online interactions. Decentralization can fix this key concern. As the old wisdom goes ...

Bots get a bad rap, but they’re not all bad. Without web crawlers, for example, search engines couldn’t index new content on the internet. But what is bad is when verification providers, including ...