From Lisbon's haze to the orchid in the studio – strong forms and quiet light characterize this week's photos.

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 ...

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 ...

The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a prestigious competition featuring talented high school students from around the world, in which competitors solve complicated mathematical problems.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

They’re canceling the robot apocalypse — for now at least. The AI bots who were supposedly caught predicting mankind’s downfall by 2047 were little more than Internet trolls roleplaying as machines ...