Your chatbot is playing a character - why Anthropic says that's dangerous

Researchers found that part of what makes chatbots so compelling also makes them vulnerable to bad behavior. Here's why.

What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots

Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of ...

Your chatbot may have emotions, and it changes how it behaves

Your chatbot may not feel anything, but new research shows emotion-like signals inside AI can shape responses, steer ...
IEEE

Engineering a Robust Social Media Bot Detection Model Using Roberta, Time Series Patterns, and Graph Neural Networks

Abstract: This study presents an engineering-driven multimodal deep learning framework for robust detection of social media bot accounts by integrating advanced natural language processing, temporal ...
digitalmarketreports

FBI Warns Iranian Hackers Use Telegram Bots To Control Devices And Steal Data

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned that Iranian government-linked hackers are using Telegram-based tools to infiltrate and control the devices of dissidents, journalists, and opposition ...
IEEE

Prediction of Contour Errors for an H-Bot Gantry CNC Machine Using Neural Networks and NURBS Toolpaths

Abstract: This paper presents a method for predicting contour error in H-Bot non-cartesian CNC gantry machine. Contour error is defined as the difference between the ...
Bleeping Computer

Musician admits to $10M streaming royalty fraud using AI bots

North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive streaming royalty fraud scheme on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and ...
TechCrunch

Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says

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 ...
The New York Times

A.I. Agents: They’re Fun. They’re Useful. But Don’t Give Them the Credit Card.

New A.I. bots can do more than just chat. They can edit files, send emails, book trips and cause trouble. A Vals AI employee using Claude Code to debug A.I. agents.Credit...Video by Manuel Orbegozo ...
Spotify

Streaming fraud man who pocketed $8m using hundreds of thousands of AI songs streamed billions of times by bots pleads guilty

The man at the center of what’s been described as the first-ever criminal prosecution for AI-assisted streaming fraud in the United States has pleaded guilty. Continue to article... Michael Smith, of ...
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Traders Use Claude AI to Build Polymarket Bots — Some Claim Millions in Profits

Traders are using Claude AI to build automated bots that analyze news, data, and probabilities to trade on Polymarket prediction markets. The bots connect to Polymarket’s API to detect mispriced odds ...
The Denver Post

Lawmakers to get first crack at AI chatbots, data center regulations in the Colorado legislature this week

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After the Colorado General Assembly crossed the halfway point on the 2026 session this past weekend, another important milestone awaits this week: the March ...