Abstract: This study explores how proactive AI bots distort online opinion dynamics through strategic behavior in social networks. Extending the bounded confidence model, we simulate heterogeneous bot ...

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 ...

Americans are living in parallel AI universes. For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, and the slop that now clogs social-media feeds. Meanwhile, tech hobbyists ...

Meta has patented a hypothetical LLM that would continue posting for (and as) you, long after you're dead. Granted in late December, the patent outlines an AI that would "simulate" a person's social ...

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As artificial intelligence evolves at a blistering pace, world leaders and thousands of other delegates will discuss how to handle the technology at the AI Impact Summit, which opens Monday in New ...

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 ...

Quite a fuss has been made about Moltbook, the online chatroom launched to great fanfare last month. At first glance, it looks like Reddit and other such sites, said The Economist. Users post about ...

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 ...

Scott Shambaugh woke up early Wednesday morning to learn that an artificial intelligence bot had written a blog post accusing him of hypocrisy and prejudice. The 1,100-word screed called the ...

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 ...