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 ...

WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: "People would love to have a clanker as their boss." ...

This one was a lot of fun to create. Shoutout to TheHottest Dog for creating the looping animations! This is merely fan made and is not canon to the original character. Might not even have a voice lol ...

The bots have become more integrated into the every lives of users — with friends and family beginning to accept them.

Elon Musk and X now have another investigation to contend with, from the Data Protection Commission in Ireland.

The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced SB 482, filed by Sen. Tom Leek. It was the final Committee stop for the bill, ...

Buying followers isn’t criminal, but it can violate platform rules and FTC laws. Learn the legal risks, penalties, and safer growth strategies.

Tension: We’ve built digital empires on follower counts and engagement metrics, yet influence increasingly happens in invisible ...

A 2025 study by Common Sense Media found that 1-in-5 teens surveyed have engaged in a romantic relationship with a chatbot or ...

A newly granted Meta patent describes AI technology that could simulate social media activity when users are absent or ...

The switch to “amazing abundance” is actually a very new change compared to the last mission statement, released in Sept. 2025. Tesla Master Plan Part 4 called it “sustainable abundance,” a nod to ...

Peter Steinberger's open-source AI agent OpenClaw hit 180,000 GitHub stars and spawned MoltBook chaos. Now Meta and OpenAI want to buy it, but he's determined to keep it free.