North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive streaming royalty fraud scheme on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and ...

An online trend is rigging the answers of popular AI chatbots with shocking ease, challenging user trust in agentic systems. Dubbed generative engine optimization, or GEO, the fad utilizes blog posts ...

A former Twitch moderator has been arrested again after allegedly continuing a years-long stalking campaign against a WoW streamer.

Macworld outlines 10 strategies to combat iPhone spam, including unwanted calls, texts, and app notifications that disrupt daily device usage. Key solutions include using iOS’s Screen Unknown Callers ...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI, and the open-source bot is becoming a foundation, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Sunday. "Peter Steinberger is joining ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facepalm: Ruthless companies are actively exploiting large language models and other AI products to automate highly sensitive vetting processes. Ventures operating in the brand protection space can ...

They’re canceling the robot apocalypse — for now at least. The AI bots who were supposedly caught predicting mankind’s downfall by 2047 were little more than Internet trolls roleplaying as machines ...

Moltbook is a groundbreaking social platform where only AI agents can actively post, comment, and interact, while humans are relegated to observers. The platform flips traditional social networks, ...

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 ...

On Moltbook, bots have formed communities, invented their own inside jokes, cultural references and even formed a parody religion. Or have they? Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is ...