In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

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Microsoft has introduced a new Teams admin policy that allows organizers to prevent third-party bots from joining meetings without approval. This new feature was first announced in a March Microsoft ...

Advances in artificial intelligence are leveling the field for fund managers, making it easier for boutique firms to compete with big macro and bond investors. From digesting speeches in multiple ...

Estonia plans to assign personal identification numbers to AI assistants in an effort to better control and limit the kinds of access and authority such bots possess as they carry out work on behalf ...

It was only a matter of time before bots outnumbered humans on the internet, but many experts thought the flesh and blood majority would stand for a few more years. They were wrong—and the impact on ...

Artificial intelligence and automated bots’ online activity has outpaced humans’ for the first time in history — with more than half of all internet traffic coming from automations instead of real ...

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The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions ...

It’s been three-and-a-half years since generative AI exploded onto the scene. In this past year, progress has continued its relentless pace: Vibe coding took off, companies embraced agentic workflows, ...

The SEC charged Texas man Nathan Fuller with raising $12.3 million from 150 investors through a crypto fraud scheme built around fake AI trading bots. The Securities and Exchange Commission has ...

Building an AI trading bot for Polymarket combines technical development with strategic financial decision-making. All About AI examines how to build a bot designed to predict Bitcoin price movements ...