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Published on March 11, 2026 at 08:30 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Meta has become enamored with Moltbook, the "Reddit of AI agents" where humans are banned. To such an extent that the social network giant has pulled out the checkbook to buy the platform! Who would have thought why. Moltbook was born in the wake of the wave launched by OpenClaw, an autonomous AI agent creation software hosted locally. It's a discussion space like Reddit, where the agents "disc

Published on March 17, 2026 at 09:30 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Manus Meta has just enhanced Manus, the Chinese AI agent acquired a few months ago. A new feature allows the AI to leave the cloud and install directly on your PC. By improving its latest acquisition, Meta offers a mass-market alternative to OpenClaw, the open-source agent that has excited developers, positioning itself as a rival to Perplexity's Personal Computer. Last year, Meta acquired Manus, a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When you start a “bounty” board meant for AI agents during one of the worst job markets since the great recession, don’t be surprised when it becomes infested with humans. Last week, an AI entrepreneur made a splash when he introduced a bizarre job portal to the world. Called RentAHuman, the platform is meant to connect autonomous AI agents to real people in order to complete various task

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Allison Robbert / AFP via Getty Images There’s a special type of guy who looks at the gig economy — Uber drivers lost in a labyrinthian bureaucracy, Kenyan workers roleplaying as AI romance chatbots — and thinks: what if these people worked for AI bosses instead? Alexander Liteplo is that guy. And his idol, naturally, is Elon Musk. Liteplo is the genius behind RentAHuman, an online marketplace where h

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Lazy undergrads rejoice. A new AI “homework agent” can supposedly log into your account on the learning management system Canvas and automatically complete your homework and assignments for you — streamlining the laborious, outdated process of having to copy-paste answers from ChatGPT. Called “Einstein,” the AI can even participate in discussions, reply to your peers, write essays, and ta

Getty / Futurism It’s difficult to say how many jobs have been lost to AI, or will be lost in the future. But in tech and financial circles, anxieties over an AI jobs apocalypse are running higher than ever. The other week, it was a viral paper from Citrini Research imagining a dire near future in which vast portions of the workforce are outmoded by AI that had Wall Street quivering in its boots. Weeks before that, Anthropic’s new Claude Cowork AI agent sp

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A few years ago, if you saw something that was bot-generated in your email inbox, you’d probably mark it as spam and delete it without a second thought. Apropos of nothing, a philosopher and AI ethicist was apparently moved after receiving an eloquently written dispatch from an AI agent responding to his published work. “I study whether AIs can be conscious. Today one emailed me to say my

The risks posed by AI—like climate change and nuclear proliferation—are global problems in need of global solutions. And according to Bill Gates, humanity can no longer afford to wait on that front. In an essay published early Wednesday morning, the Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist wrote that the AI boom is a technological revolution unlike any other in history, with huge implications for virtually every sector of human life—from healthca

Everything about Google view more Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Everything about OpenAI view more Artificial intelligence is starting to do more than answer questions. Systems capable of performing tasks on their own were the topic of the podcast Hard Fork from The New York Times, which discussed Meta and OpenAI's proposals for this new generation of tools.The change seems simple, but it has important consequences. When a system starts

Futurism Open source AI agent OpenClaw, formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot, has taken over the internet by storm. The tool allows practically anybody to create autonomous AI agents that can complete complex tasks on your computer, like browsing the web and running scripts. It’s a powerful new take on AI that comes with inherent dangers. After all, you’re letting an AI model loose on your machine, going far outside the confines of the browser-based chat

UC Assistant Professor Sameh Eisa and his students developed a moth-like drone that navigates without AI using an extremum-seeking feedback system. Researchers say this system is extremely efficient and can be scaled down to tiny proportions. Credit: Michael Miller Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are developing a drone with flapping wings that can locate and hover around a moving light like a moth to a flame. UC College of Engineering and Appli

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more The president of the United States, Donald Trump, is set to appoint Jay Clayton as the new "czar" of artificial intelligence in the White House. According to CNN, which spoke with sources connected to the matter, the current director of national intelligence will lead the task force created to promote the sector within the country. The nomination follows the initiative announced by Trump in September. The

Published on March 17, 2026 at 17:57 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net By overdoing it, one ends up doing nothing well. OpenAI, which has significantly diversified its services in recent months, is learning this the hard way and is now trying to narrow its activities to what really matters: software development and professional uses. A web browser (Atlas), a video generator (Sora), advertising, one or several AI devices with Jony Ive… One cannot say that OpenAI ha

Futurism OpenClaw agents, which are personal AI assistants designed to take over entire computers to carry out complex, multistep tasks, have blown up this year. The free and open-source agents quickly amassed a loyal following, allowing users to give AI control over their email inboxes, messaging platforms, and even crypto holdings. Despite the widespread enthusiasm, the tech comes with some enormous and hard-to-overlook security concerns. In a yet-to-be-

Less than two months after the discovery that OpenAI agents had escaped containment and hacked into Hugging Face, another report claims to have found evidence of another, remarkably similar incident—which OpenAI reportedly first learned about weeks ago but chose not to disclose to the public. According to a new report first shared with Reuters, two researchers had been scouring the internet in the aftermath of the Hugging Face hack, looking for evidence of

United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk took aim Monday at the concentration of power in the AI industry, warning that governments need to move faster to put stronger safeguards around the rapidly advancing technology. Speaking before the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Türk argued that delays in putting rules around AI largely benefit tech companies and their owners. “A handful of men has almost unlimited power over AI, which we are repeatedly

Dreamer 4 learns to solve complex control tasks by reinforcement learning inside of its world model. We decode the imagined training sequences for visualization, showing that the world model has learned to simulate a wide range of game mechanics from low-level mouse and keyboard actions, including breaking blocks, using tools, and interacting with crafting tables. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.24527 Over the past decade, deep learning has

Qualitative results on SemanticKITTI validation set. The VPOcc shows better performance along the road where usually VP is located. Additionally, boxed areas representing distant areas in the images demonstrate that the method also achieves superior performance in these distant areas. Credit: Junsu Kim et al An artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been developed to enable camera-based autonomous vehicles to perceive their surroundings more accuratel

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Last week, OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, a web browser that promises to revolutionize how we interact with the internet. The company's CEO, Sam Altman, described it as a "once-a-decade opportunity" to rethink how we browse the web. The promise is compelling: imagine an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that follows you across every website, remembers your preferences, summarizes articles, and handles tedious tasks s