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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Filippo Menczer receives funding from Knight Foundation, National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, and Air Force Office of Scientific Research. We were able to identify these ...

Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server. The sudden rise of a huge network of ...

On Thursday, Anthropic and OpenAI shipped products built around the same idea: instead of chatting with a single AI assistant, users should be managing teams of AI agents that divide up work and run ...

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 first signs of the apocalypse might look a little like Moltbook: a new social-media platform, launched last week, that is supposed to be populated exclusively by AI bots—1.6 million of them and ...

Dr. Weatherby is the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. There’s a new social media site, but you’re not allowed to join; it’s for artificial intelligence agents only. Last week ...

What happens when thousands of AI agents get together online and talk like humans do? That’s what a new social network called Moltbook, designed just for AI bots and not people, aims to find out. And ...

Someone finally invented a social media site that isn’t terrible for our brains. Unfortunately that’s because it’s populated exclusively by AI agents, with no humans allowed. Called Moltbook, the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State’s athletic department is looking to take advantage of a revenue opportunity recently approved by the NCAA: commercial jersey patches. Athletics director Ross Bjork ...