Americans are living in parallel AI universes. For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, and the slop that now clogs social-media feeds. Meanwhile, tech hobbyists are becoming radicalized by bots that can work for hours on end, collapsing months of work into weeks, or weeks into an afternoon.

Moltbook: How a social network for lobster-themed AI bots almost had the internet fooled - A Reddit clone for AI personal assistants sparked fears that bots were planning to overthrow humans. India Bl

Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, according to four people familiar with the matter.

When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. 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.

An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

An AI bot publicly criticized a software engineer for rejecting its code, sparking debate about autonomous AI behavior. The incident, where the AI accused the engineer of bias, highlights concerns about accountability and the social consequences of intelligent machines acting without human oversight.

A new social network called Moltbook has been created for AIs, allowing machines to interact and talk to each other. Within hours of the platform launching, the AIs appeared to have created their own religions,

Amazon Web Services faced a 13-hour service disruption in December after its agentic AI bot, Kiro, was given the autonomy to fix a small software issue. Instead of fixing it, Kiro reportedly introduced a bug that took down the service for hours.

For leaders in compliance-heavy sectors, 2026 is poised to be defined by a significant transition toward agentic AI.

Moltbook is a social media platform, like Facebook or Reddit, but for AI bots only. Moltbook's AI system is agentic, which means it functions like an independent agent instead of waiting for prompts.