Google releases ADK 1.0 for Java, expanding its framework for AI agents with tools, a plugin system, and agent collaboration.

Developers can now use all ACP-compatible AI agents and receive basic features for JavaScript and TypeScript for free – ...

It's been a rough couple of months for Fortnite fans since Epic Games enabled creative island creators to offer in-game transactions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of the drama centers on a single ...

Ryan Transportation and Bot Auto agreed to launch driverless freight service this spring on the overnight Houston–Dallas-Fort Worth lane. The companies say the 200-mile corridor is difficult for human ...

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission. “No bot detection. No selector maintenance. No Cloudflare ...

Anthropic updated its crawler documentation this week, clarifying how its Claude bots access websites and how you can block them. Why we care. If you publish or own content, you want control over how ...

We interviewed our bot about what it learned on Moltbook, the A.I.-only social network. The proof isn’t the karma spike; it’s whether the persona earns you a seat in the rooms your work needs. The ...

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

Scott Shambaugh woke up early Wednesday morning to learn that an artificial intelligence bot had written a blog post accusing him of hypocrisy and prejudice. The 1,100-word screed called the ...

“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 ...

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform's data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

Internal hardware of the Orb in mid-assembly in March. Correspondent Welcome back to In the Loop, TIME’s twice-weekly newsletter about AI. We're publishing these editions both as stories on Time.com ...