A decision to ban Telegram on home soil may have backfired on the Kremlin. Last week, Russia went on a blocking spree, banning a number of Western apps in an effort to push domestic users towards Max, ...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s agentic artificial intelligence tool Manus said today it’s going to integrate its platform with popular messaging applications including Telegram, WhatsApp, LINE and Slack. To ...

Website owners are reporting a sharp spike in the number of bots visiting their platforms in recent months. While the bots’ function is unclear, experts say they could represent an attempt to scrape ...

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 ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

OpenClaw, a powerful new agentic assistant, has a thing for guacamole. This is one of several things I discovered while using the viral artificial intelligence bot as my personal assistant this past ...

Russian authorities have begun restricting access to Telegram, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, as the government continues to push everyday Russians toward its own tightly ...

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Telegram billionaire Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov vowed to resist Russian authorities’ attempts to restrict access to the popular messenger in order to make people use the Kremlin-backed app ...

MOSCOW, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Telegram founder Pavel Durov said on Tuesday that Telegram remains committed to protecting freedom of speech and user privacy "no matter the pressure". His comments came ...

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, ...