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 ...

Sex bots are having a moment, and for good reason. From customizable personalities and NSFW roleplay to emotional support and AI-generated art, today’s AI sex platforms deliver a new kind of intimacy ...

Cloudflare stock surged again on Tuesday, as buzz around the artificial-intelligence assistant Moltbot gives the cybersecurity and cloud-services company a boost, despite little evidence of a direct ...

Shoppers using Sparky place orders that are, on average, 35% larger, CFO John David Rainey said on a conference call. Sarina Trangle started as a corporate news reporter in October 2024. She ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Sure, that might sound a little bit Black Mirror, but if Meta has anything to do with it, that might become a reality... As reported by Business Insider, Meta—which owns Facebook, WhatsApp, and ...

The golden age of unbridled spending on AI software might be behind us, as vendors say it’s a lot harder to make a sale than it used to be. Last year represented something of a boon era for vendors ...

Einstein is a new AI tool that can watch lecture videos, read essays, write papers, complete quizzes and basically take your class for you. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is ...

Many are longing for oblivion these days, and the cleansing fire of any sort of apocalypse presumably sounds great, including one brought on by malevolent forms of machine intelligence. This sort of ...

We interviewed our bot about what it learned on Moltbook, the A.I.-only social network. The proof isn’t the karma spike; it’s whether the persona earns you a seat in the rooms your work needs. The ...