Getting dragged online is basically a modern rite of passage. Group chats, comments sections, TikTok stitches – there's always someone ready to call you out. But at least there's usually a real person ...

Scott Shambaugh woke up early Wednesday morning to learn that an artificial intelligence bot had written a blog post accusing him of hypocrisy and prejudice. The 1,100-word screed called the ...

Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. A Linux terminal runs the OpenClaw platform. Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. Recent AI progress can be divided into roughly three phases. First we had ...

An open source AI assistant called Moltbot (formerly “Clawdbot”) recently crossed 69,000 stars on GitHub after a month, making it one of the fastest-growing AI projects of 2026. Created by Austrian ...

Clawdbot has rebranded again, completing its "molt" into OpenClaw. Security is a "top priority," but new exploits surfaced over the weekend. Experts warn against the hype without understanding the ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

A new report found that bots have surpassed human internet traffic. HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic year-over-year.

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 ...

Over the holidays, Alex Lieberman had an idea: What if he could create Spotify “Wrapped” for his text messages? Without writing a single line of code, Lieberman, a co-founder of the media outlet ...