Amanda Heidt is a freelance writer and editor in Moab, Utah. On 23 February, academics across the world took to social media to decry the death of education as we know it. The day before, a technology ...

Money has always demanded trust, but now it demands a password. Algorithms manage billions of dollars, build portfolios in seconds, and rebalance investments while most people sleep. Companies turned ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today’s AI trading bots are based on a limited amount of historical data which means totally unfamiliar market events like the 10/10 liquidations or even last week’s severe selloffs will leave agentic ...

Talk about AI today, and you’ll hear two stories. One says this is the future of everything. The other says it’s a bubble that’s about to pop. The truth is closer to a video game: We’re still in the ...

Artificial intelligence is shaking up industries from software and law to entertainment and education. And as physicians like Dr. Cem Aksoy are learning, it’s posing special challenges in medicine as ...

SAN FRANCISCO — At the end of January, Matt Schlicht, a technologist living in a small town just south of Los Angeles, launched a new social network called Moltbook. Like Facebook or Reddit, Moltbook ...

They’re canceling the robot apocalypse — for now at least. The AI bots who were supposedly caught predicting mankind’s downfall by 2047 were little more than Internet trolls roleplaying as machines ...

A new social media platform launched last week and it's got Silicon Valley buzzing, but it's not for humans. Moltbook is a platform for AI agents to talk to other AI agents. Worried about a coming AI, ...

What happens when you create a social media platform that only AI bots can post to? The answer, it turns out, is both entertaining and concerning. Moltbook is exactly that—a platform where artificial ...