Alejandro Quintero, a data analyst in Bogotá, owns a website that publishes articles about paranormal activities. As the content is written in “Spanglish,” he was surprised to see a surge in interest ...

From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.

What happens when AI bot traffic starts to catch up with human visitors?

New data shows AI bots pushing deeper into the web, prompting publishers to roll out more aggressive defenses.

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

This article is based on coverage by Meta.mk News Agency published on November 16 and November 23, 2025. An edited version is republished here under a content-sharing agreement between Global Voices ...

Worries are that agentic AI bot swarms could overwhelm society. I focus on AI bots could undercut mental health. Democracy is at stake. An AI Insider scoop.