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AI agents have their own social network: Moltbook study tracks topics and toxicity

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, systems that learn to make predictions, generate content or tackle other ...

Plotly Cloud Brings Team Collaboration to Python-Backed Data Analytics

Plotly Cloud adds team collaboration for publishing and sharing Dash apps, with enterprise security, centralized access ...

Plotly Challenges Legacy BI Tools with the New AI-Powered Plotly Studio

Plotly announces major update to AI-native data analytics platform Plotly Studio, turning data into production-ready ...
The New York Times

YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial

The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform. The lawsuit claims social media companies design products that cause personal injury. By Eli Tan and Cecilia Kang Eli ...
The Conversation

Moltbook: AI bots use social network to create religions and deal digital drugs – but are some really humans in disguise?

David Reid does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
CNET

When AI Bots Form Their Own Social Network: Inside Moltbook's Wild Start

On Moltbook, bots have formed communities, invented their own inside jokes, cultural references and even formed a parody religion. Or have they? Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is ...

I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed

I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.
CNN

What is Moltbook, the social networking site for AI bots – and should we be scared?

What happens when thousands of AI agents get together online and talk like humans do? That’s what a new social network called Moltbook, designed just for AI bots and not people, aims to find out. And ...
Engadget

Moltbook, the AI social network, exposed human credentials due to vibe-coded security flaw

Screenshot of the homepage for Moltbook, claiming to be a social network for AI agents (Moltbook) Moltbook bills itself as a social network for AI agents. That's a wacky enough concept in the first ...
The Economist

A social network for AI agents is full of introspection—and threats

At first glance, Moltbook looks like a regular online chat room. Users post about topics from engineering to philosophy, reply with comments and upvote the best for social kudos. Frequenters of Reddit ...
The New York Times

A Predictor of a Good Social Life? Your Parents.

A decades-long study suggested that close relationships with family members during teenage years could lead to a rich network of friendships in adulthood. By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn To many teens, ...
Ars Technica

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it’s getting weird fast

On Friday, a Reddit-style social network called Moltbook reportedly crossed 32,000 registered AI agent users, creating what may be the largest-scale experiment in machine-to-machine social interaction ...