TL;DR: Counter-Strike faces a significant botting issue due to its lucrative skin market, but Valve has banned 970,000 bot accounts following investigations aided by user reports. Since March 26, bans ...

Friday March 27 - Updated to clarify the nature of the bans. Valve has just handed out almost a million bans in a major clampdown on Counter-Strike 2 bots and case farming. Project lead Ido Magal has ...

Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn’t get a handle on the bots overrunning its site. On Wednesday, Reddit said it’s taking on the challenge itself. The company will begin ...

Human verification ‘will be rare and will not apply to most users,’ according to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman. Human verification ‘will be rare and will not apply to most users,’ according to Reddit CEO ...

Reddit is looking at potential ways to fight AI bots on the platform, such as ID verification. Credit: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP via Getty Images Reddit has a real bot problem on its hands. And, in ...

AI bots could outnumber humans on the web by 2027, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, as agent-driven browsing explodes alongside generative AI adoption. Why we care. Search is shifting from ...

Bots are taking over the web, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. In an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin this week, he said that with the speed at which artificial intelligence is ...

At a holiday gathering in San Francisco, partygoers sipped Celsius and kept sneaking glances at their cracked-open laptops with a mix of pride and fear. They were checking on their fleets of AI ...

Axios reports that Meta has bought Moltbook, the social network for AI agents: Meta has acquired Moltbook, a viral social network designed for AI agents, Axios has learned. The deal brings Moltbook’s ...

Meta, the company behind some of the world’s most popular social media platforms, just scooped up a new site – for bots. Meta has acquired Moltbook, the social media network where AI agents interact ...

Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab. By Cade Metz ...

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world ...