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Hackers are stealing two-factor authentication codes by using voice bots that sound authentic
The hackers can either login or make money transfers or perform other sensitive functions by us…
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Elon Musk says $44 billion Twitter deal can't proceed until CEO proves the platform has fewer than 5% fake accounts
"My offer was based on Twitter's SEC filings being accurate," Musk tweeted Tuesday, again taking is…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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AI models from OpenAI and other tech giants are being bombarded by a new swarm of bots 'extracting intelligence'
There's a new type of bot that scrapes AI models such as OpenAI's GPT-4 to extract intelligence. Ve…
Alistair Barr
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Twitter is taking 'extreme measures' to tackle its bot problem. It should verify everyone instead.
The social-media firm said it needed to take "extreme measures" of limiting the number of tweets it…
Hasan Chowdhury
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says 'very smart' Elon Musk should 'clean up Twitter' and remove bot accounts
Jamie Dimon expressed concerns about the number of spam accounts on Twitter – an issue which has pl…
Grace Dean
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Twitter, Elon Musk, and the 'pleasant, unassuming' Delaware judge who may force him to pay tens of billions of dollars
Kathaleen McCormick is not likely to side with the world's richest man in his Twitter battle, Colum…
Ryan Hogg,Sam Tabahriti
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Twitter suspended a bot account that spoiled the next day's Wordle answer for people who tweeted their scores
"I was sent from the future to terminate wordle bragging," the account's bio read until it was susp…
Kieran Press-Reynolds,Madison…
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Twitter apparently has a 'dick pic bot' that scours the platform for posts with not-safe-for-work content, according to Elon Musk
Musk said the bot typically flags more posts with male genitals than ones with female genitals, and…
Matthew Loh
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The app Elon Musk used to calculate the number of bots on Twitter also thought he was a bot, according to Twitter's lawyers
Musk used the service Botometer to show the platform was rife with automated accounts, but legal fi…
Connor Perrett
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Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles and regulators can't keep up
Social media is being flooded with spammy AI content. Research by Indiana University details how ar…
Shubham Agarwal
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Twitter says Elon Musk admitted he didn't read a summary it sent him of how it samples bots
The issue of whether Elon Musk's concerns around bot numbers were legitimate is a key element in th…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Elon Musk faces a legal nightmare and a potential $1 billion fee as he tries to walk from Twitter deal
If Elon Musk follows through on breaking his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, he could be sett…
Avery Hartmans,Grace Kay,Sind…
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Twitter jumps after the social media company reportedly plans to give Elon Musk trove of data to disprove bot theory
The Twitter board will let Musk access a massive data stream that's comprised of more than 500 mill…
Matthew Fox
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The artificial intelligence war has Wall Street in a frenzy over Google, Microsoft, and anything related to bots
Insider's Phil Rosen breaks down what Wall Street is saying about the rapidly heating up AI search …
Phil Rosen
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Elon Musk says bots making 'good content' will be exempt from Twitter's plan to charge for API access
Elon Musk said that Twitter would enable a free 'write-only API' for bots 'providing good content t…
Stephanie Stacey
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Elon Musk suggests cutting Twitter offer by proportion of bots and calls its lack of explanation 'very suspicious'
Musk agreed that if 25% of daily active users are fake accounts, the takeover should cost 25% less,…
Ryan Hogg
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In the midst of its battle with Elon Musk, Twitter threatens to revoke Bot Sentinel's data access after founder suggests Twitter has more than 5% 'bots'
Bot Sentinel has for years used Twitter's API to publicly track accounts that are potentially harmf…
Kali Hays
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Elon Musk put his $44 billion Twitter buyout 'on hold.' He could be trying for a better price, buying himself time — or preparing to scrap the deal altogether.
Pressure on Tesla stock, a volatile market, and deal financing issues suggest Musk has got "cold fe…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Elon Musk called Twitter newsfeed algorithms 'manipulative,' prompting a reply from founder Jack Dorsey, who disagreed with the claim
"You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don't realize," Musk said. He told follower…
Ryan Hogg
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Elon Musk said his team is going to do a 'random sample of 100 followers' of Twitter to see how many of the platform's users are actually bots
Elon Musk said his $44 billion Twitter deal is on hold pending his own research to confirm the comp…