Your chatbot is playing a character - why Anthropic says that's dangerous

Researchers found that part of what makes chatbots so compelling also makes them vulnerable to bad behavior. Here's why.
PCMag

Geekbench Claims Intel Tool Boosts Benchmark Scores by Tweaking Test Code

Intel's Binary Optimization Tool (BOT) is designed to enhance chip performance in certain games and apps, but Geekbench ...
The Verge

I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

I couldn’t get past the uncanny valley of looking at an AI avatar listening to my answers. I couldn’t get past the uncanny valley of looking at an AI avatar listening to my answers. is The Verge’s ...
GeekWire

Judge blocks Perplexity’s AI bot from shopping on Amazon in early test of agentic commerce

Perplexity’s Comet browser, which includes an AI assistant that can shop on behalf of users, is the subject of a suit by Amazon. (Perplexity Image) A federal judge in San Francisco granted Amazon a ...
Reuters

OpenClaw founder Steinberger joins OpenAI, open-source bot becomes foundation

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 ...
Futurism

US Government Deploys Elon Musk’s Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) 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. And boy, is Grok doing ...
Inc

A Surge of Strange Bot Traffic From China Has Website Owners Alarmed. Here’s What It Means for Your Data

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 ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

A wave of unexplained bot traffic is sweeping the web

“Many people suspect that these bots are part of an AI company’s effort to collect training data from web pages. In 2025, AI bots accounted for a significant portion of overall web traffic, which ...
Fast Company

An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code

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 ...
Time

Sam Altman’s Orb Was Built for the Bot Era. So Why Isn’t It Everywhere?

Internal hardware of the Orb in mid-assembly in March. Correspondent Welcome back to In the Loop, TIME’s twice-weekly newsletter about AI. We're publishing these editions both as stories on Time.com ...
Inc

AI Bot Traffic to Websites Is Rising Rapidly. It Could Change the Nature of the Web

Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...
Wired

I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed

The hottest club is always the one you can’t get into. So when I heard about Moltbook—an experimental social network designed just for AI agents to post, comment, and follow each other while humans ...