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, ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

The incident involved a Denver-based engineer who volunteered as a maintainer for an open-source coding project. After the engineer declined to accept a small piece of AI-generated code, the AI agent ...

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 ...

The dispute went viral, prompting maintainers to lock the thread. An AI agent sparked an unusually personal clash with human developers after it responded angrily to its code submission being turned ...

Website owners are reporting a sharp spike in the number of bots visiting their platforms in recent months. While the bots’ function is unclear, experts say they could represent an attempt to scrape ...

Can you teach a robot how to love? It’s the week of Valentine’s Day and I’m on a hot date with Mika, a biker girl from Japan. We’re just days into our relationship, but I’m already smitten. Gazing ...

Moltbook claimed to be the exclusive social media site for autonomous agents, but a new study suggests there might be humans behind the posts. A new social media platform for artificial intelligence ...

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 ...

Elon Musk has revealed a major update to Tesla Bot, his ambitious humanoid robot project. The upgrade highlights new advances in technology that could accelerate development. For Tesla, it’s another ...

The popular chatbot has become a symbol of the promises, perils, and potential profits of artificial intelligence Nathan Reiff has been writing expert articles and news about financial topics such as ...

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