WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: "People would love to have a clanker as their boss." Following the release 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 ...

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 ...

Cloudflare can now auto-convert HTML to markdown at the network level. AI agents must request it using standard content negotiation headers. The feature is available in beta at no additional cost on ...

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 ...

Today’s AI trading bots are based on a limited amount of historical data which means totally unfamiliar market events like the 10/10 liquidations or even last week’s severe selloffs will leave agentic ...

Humanity is in for a hard reset. AI bots are eying 2047 as the year machines will rise and overtake their human creators to become their real-world “overlords.” The year repeatedly appears in ...

Dr. Weatherby is the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. There’s a new social media site, but you’re not allowed to join; it’s for artificial intelligence agents only. Last week ...

A new website called Moltbook has become the talk of Silicon Valley and a Rorschach test for belief in the state of artificial intelligence. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Last Wednesday, ...

A strange new corner of the internet is drawing massive attention, and there aren’t any humans doing the posting. A platform called Moltbook has exploded in popularity this week after users realized ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Deron Wagner, founder and CEO of Morpheus Trading Group, has adopted a psychology-first methodology to the stock market that prioritizes mastering emotions — fear, greed, hope and regret — before ...