Meet Noscroll, an AI bot that does your doomscrolling for you

What if you could outsource your doomscrolling? That’s the premise behind the new startup Noscroll, which is offering an ...

OpenAI’s Crawler Docs Now List OAI-AdsBot For ChatGPT Ads

OpenAI’s Crawler Docs Now List OAI-AdsBot For ChatGPT Ads . OpenAI's docs now list OAI-AdsBot. It's a bot that visits only ...
Geeky Gadgets

Let Excel Do the Work: How to Use Loops in Office Scripts

Automating repetitive tasks in Excel can significantly enhance efficiency and Office Scripts provide a structured way to achieve this. By incorporating loops, you can create workflows that dynamically ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

“I was surprised how upset some people got”: A conversation with the creator of TomWikiAssist, the bot that edited Wikipedia

Behind the scenes at Wikipedia, some editors were alarmed recently when they saw a flurry of edits and new articles by a contributor known as TomWikiAssist. It turned out that Tom was a bot and was ...
Futurism

Man Pleads Guilty to Making $8 Million by Creating Music With AI and Using Bots to Drive Zillions of Fake Streams

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. For ...
Engadget

Reddit is weighing identity verification methods to combat its bot problem

There could be one more step required before creating an account and posting on Reddit in the future. According to Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, the social media platform is exploring different ways to ...
Homeland Security Today

Report Highlights AI-Driven Russian Bot Network Using Scandals for Influence Operations

A new report is shedding light on a February 2026 malign influence campaign tied to the Russian-linked “Matryoshka” bot network, highlighting how artificial intelligence is being used to scale and ...
Variety

WGA to Seek Payment for AI Training on Scripts as Talks With Studios Set to Begin

The Writers Guild of America went on strike three years ago in large part out of fears of writers being replaced by artificial intelligence. That has not happened — whether due to copyright issues, or ...
CNN

Meta just bought the social network for AI bots everyone’s been talking about

Meta, the company behind some of the world’s most popular social media platforms, just scooped up a new site – for bots. Meta has acquired Moltbook, the social media network where AI agents interact ...
MLive

Bot instructors? AI use at University of Michigan differs across campus

ANN ARBOR, MI - Students receiving instructions from a bot instructor at the University of Michigan? It’s not as improbable as you might think, according to one professor at UM. The university does ...
New Scientist

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises. Kenneth Payne at King’s College London set three ...
The Boston Globe

House Republicans use AI to help them understand Senate budget rules

House Republicans have a new card up their sleeve to help bring legislation to the Senate floor: AI. A new AI tool, called the Byrd Bot, was developed by the conservative Republican Study Committee to ...