AI bot activity surged 300% in 2025, with media and publishing among the most targeted sectors, according to a new Akamai report. Why we care. AI bots are reshaping how content is discovered and ...

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 ...

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission. “No bot detection. No selector maintenance. No Cloudflare ...

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Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

Keep scrolling to read our original story on the name change. Clawdbot has been on quite the ride. The free, open-source AI assistant has gone viral on platforms like X, where early adopters, AI ...

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Bot Auto is an autonomous freight company pioneering a Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS) business model. Bot Auto, an autonomous freight company pioneering a Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS) ...

Bot networks are now a brand problem, too. Coordinated webs of fake social-media personas have historically been the domain of fraudsters and state-based actors, such as the infamous Russian troll ...

An Oregon man is facing federal charges over allegations he orchestrated multiple large-scale cyberattacks over the course of several years, federal authorities announced Tuesday. Ethan Foltz, 22, ...