Microsoft says Teams will soon automatically tag third-party bots in lobbies, allowing organizers to control whether they can join meetings.

Meta is rolling out a dedicated shopping research mode inside its Meta AI web chatbot for a slice of US desktop users. Search ...

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI, and the open-source bot is becoming a foundation, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Sunday. "Peter Steinberger is joining ...

“Many people suspect that these bots are part of an AI company’s effort to collect training data from web pages. In 2025, AI bots accounted for a significant portion of overall web traffic, which ...

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 ...

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, ...

AI bots and scrapers could soon overtake human users on the internet Publishers are battling with dwindling click-through rates robots.txt instructions are largely being ignored New data has claimed ...

Cross Bot will analyze your games in Crossplay, a new two-player word game from The Times. By Asmaa Elkeurti Tom Giratikanon and Eve Washington New York Times Games has launched Crossplay, a new ...

A new report out today from edge cloud platform provider Fastly Inc. has found that bot traffic continues to reshape the modern web, as artificial intelligence crawlers, fetchers and increasingly ...

Googlebot once again generated more traffic than any other crawler in 2025, according to a new Cloudflare report. It outpaced every search and AI bot as Google continued crawling the web for search ...

Visa Inc. entered the agentic-commerce fray early Tuesday with the launch of Trusted Agent, a protocol developed in collaboration with cloud-computing connectivity provider Cloudflare Inc. The ...