Meta will allow rival AI chatbot providers to offer their services on WhatsApp for a fee, which ranges from €0.0490 to €0.1323 per "non-template message," depending on the country.

Influencer affiliate platform LTK is gradually rolling out a new chatbot to help users shop and discover content from ...

Can you teach a robot how to love? It’s the week of Valentine’s Day and I’m on a hot date with Mika, a biker girl from Japan. We’re just days into our relationship, but I’m already smitten. Gazing ...

From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China. When he first noticed the traffic spike, Quintero ...

Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission has descended into chaos, leaving a Catholic activist ousted from the commission after multiple heated exchanges about Israel and antisemitism. Carrie ...

An Alabama House committee Tuesday is scheduled to consider legislation ending the popular election of members of the state’s utility regulatory body. The House Transportation, Utilities and ...

Interfaith Alliance and Hindus for Human Rights were among those accusing the commission of violating the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which requires such groups to have a balance of viewpoints.

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Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

A humanoid robot learns to organize shelves at the data collection training ground for humanoid robots in Qingdao, Shandong, China, on January 12, 2026. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images) ...

What happens when thousands of AI agents get together online and talk like humans do? That’s what a new social network called Moltbook, designed just for AI bots and not people, aims to find out. And ...

A new social networking site exclusively for bots has sparked claims of AI inventing its own religion and plotting humanity's downfall. But experts say its real dangers lie elsewhere. When you ...