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 ...

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 ...

The number of cyber attacks on the internet carried out by artificial intelligence bots has increased more than 10-fold over the last year, new research has found. Daily AI-enabled bot attacks rose ...

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 ...

Modern AI is not what it seems to be—and it’s especially unreliable if you use it in these specific ways.

The internet you use every day could soon be dominated by artificial intelligence. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says that AI bots may generate more traffic than humans within the next year or two, ...

Use escalation trigger words. Say “agent,” “representative,” “billing issue,” or “legal concern” — then stop talking so the system flags your request for a human. Keep responses short and direct. Long ...

Publishing drew more AI bot traffic than any other media sub-vertical in Akamai’s data. OpenAI was the largest source of AI bot traffic hitting publishing, followed by Meta and ByteDance. Akamai says ...