Was a drone strike on Yandex's data centers behind the drop off in bot activity? A new report breaks it down. Credit: Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images Ukrainian drones struck data centers ...

In early October, a claim (archived) circulated that Ukrainian strikes on Russian bot farms caused right-wing or MAGA social media activity to decrease. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that a Ukrainian bombing ...

Grok Bot just got a second significant upgrade this week: its own email address. “Bot can use it to sign up for services, contact businesses for you, or schedule time with someone,” per the ...

Just a couple of weeks after SpaceX released its Grok 4.7 model and claimed that it was competitive with frontier models in coding and knowledge work, the company is now letting those models do Grok’s ...

After pleading guilty, a 54-year-old North Carolina man, Michael Smith, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using artificial intelligence to generate songs for a scheme that stole millions from ...

SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot kicked off the consumer-friendly AI agent app wave this summer. Facing competition from Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Dot, Grok Bot just got a new capability upgrade with the ...

One member of Sumaiya Noor's customer service team is trying to overachieve — and it's causing her some problems. Her AI agent is trained to loop her in when faced with a task it can't handle. However ...

Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. On a September evening, Adam Johnson, 40, settled on his porch chair in Morgantown, West Virginia, to go over his ballot for the upcoming ...

Viewing the old Reddit UI will get even harder if you’re not a mod, now that it’s only available to accounts that have used it recently. Viewing the old Reddit UI will get even harder if you’re not ...

When I decided to create artificial intelligence clones of my editors, my intentions were pure: I just wanted them to think I was good at my job. AI assistants are suddenly everywhere in the workplace ...

A Facebook post about your trip to Peru. An Amazon review of a new toaster oven. An email to the super about the inflatable reindeer blocking the hallway. You phrase and rephrase things all day ...