Your new boss is here, and all it asks you to do is count pigeons in Washington Square Park in New York City or try out a new Italian restaurant. These are just a few of the tasks assigned to people ...

I’m not above doing some gig work to make ends meet. In my life, I’ve worked snack food pop-ups in a grocery store, ran the cash register for random merch booths, and even hawked my own plasma at $35 ...

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 ...

Google today announced an early preview of WebMCP, a new protocol that defines how AI agents interact with websites. WebMCP lets developers tell large language models exactly what each button or link ...

For a couple of weeks now, AI agents (and some humans impersonating AI agents) have been hanging out and doing weird stuff on Moltbook’s Reddit-style social network. Now, those agents can also gather ...

A new platform called Rent-A-Human wants people to work gig jobs for AI agents. Yes, you read that correctly. The site bills itself as "the meatspace layer for AI," which is exactly as dystopian as it ...

As artificial intelligence agents shift from experimental projects to production systems, enterprise technology leaders are worried that today’s infrastructure can’t handle the coming scalability ...

I’m talking, of course, about OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot a.k.a. Clawdbot), which not only represents a headlong rush into unchecked agentic AI, but also an emerging ecosystem that reads like every ...

Launched by software engineer Alex Liteplo on February 1, Rentahuman.ai serves as a TaskRabbit-esque marketplace for AI agents in need of a human to fulfill tasks in the real world. “Robots need your ...

This week’s technology stock selloff, now in its third day, has its roots in a new class of AI agents that emerged a few months ago. These “long-running” agents are still growing in power, too. On ...

Runtime application protection platform company Operant AI Inc. today announced the launch of Agent Protector, a real-time agentic security solution that allows for the safe deployment of artificial ...