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 – ...

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 ...

Microsoft says Teams will soon automatically tag third-party bots in lobbies, allowing organizers to control whether they can join meetings. As detailed in a new Microsoft 365 roadmap entry, the ...

Microsoft is developing a useful feature for Teams that will allow admins to have a better control over bots in meetings. Microsoft is developing a new feature for Teams that will help meeting admins ...

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 ...

Anthropic now lists separate bots for training and search, while also running user-requested fetchers for browsing. Blocking search bots has direct discoverability consequences. Anthropic warns ...

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 ...

Quite a fuss has been made about Moltbook, the online chatroom launched to great fanfare last month. At first glance, it looks like Reddit and other such sites, said The Economist. Users post about ...