1+ hour, 54+ min ago  (54+ words) This is an edition of Steven Levy's Backchannel newsletter. Read previous newsletters here. A wave of unexplained bot traffic is sweeping the web Big Story: The women training for pregnancy like it's a marathon Iran's digital surveillance machine is almost…...

13+ hour, 24+ min ago  (711+ words) Google giveth, and Google taketh away. Two long-standing features are being removed from Gmail, and they both relate to how you access messages from other, non-Google email accounts through the Gmail interface. The features we're talking about are Gmailify and…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (414+ words) Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The news comes just a few months after the…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (977+ words) Rarely in modern US history have so many Americans opposed the actions of the federal government with so little hope for a top-down political solution. That's left millions of people seeking a bottom-up approach to resistance: grassroots organizing. WIRED has…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (551+ words) Like many Silicon Valley companies today, Scout AI is training large AI models and agents to automate chores. The big difference is that instead of writing code, answering emails, or buying stuff online, Scout AI's agents are designed to seek…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (328+ words) Every week, there's another finding where it looks big on paper, but it's probably not very novel," Pollock says. So I was surprised when I started digging into the specific cases here to validate the data. In some cases, the…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (583+ words) Peter Steinberger, OpenClaw's solo founder, launched it as a free, open-source tool last November. But its popularity surged last month as other coders contributed features and began sharing their experiences using it on social media. Last week, Steinberger joined ChatGPT…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (53+ words) There aren't any comments yet. Be the first to start the conversation! You need an account to add or like comments. The math on AI agents doesn't add up Big Story: We are witnessing the self-immolation of a superpower Apple…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (995+ words) 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 week. Previously known as both Clawdbot and Moltbot,…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago  (364+ words) Protecting your online privacy is an impossible task. Even if you use common sense and take protective steps to help safeguard your accounts and data (like using two-factor authentication and a VPN), the rampant spread of third-party data leaks makes…...