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

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An AI agent sparked controversy after its performance-focused pull request to Matplotlib was rejected on the grounds that the issue was reserved for human contributors.

Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library ...

The Scott Shambaugh case, reported by FRANCE 24, reveals the first known instance of AI agent harassment and warns of a future where autonomous bots could target thousands.

Arousal fluctuates continuously during wakefulness, yet how these moment-to-moment variations shape large-scale functional connectivity (FC) remains unclear. Here, we combined 7T fMRI with concurrent ...

The Matplotlib maintainer who watched an AI agent publish a hit piece about him thought he was dealing with a simple ...

The rush to put out autonomous agents without thinking too hard about the potential downside is entirely consistent with ...

Ambitious climate action to improve global air quality could save up to 1.32 million lives per year by 2040, according to a new study. The research, led by Cardiff University, shows how developing ...

Background/aims Posterior capsule opacification (PCO) is the most frequent long-term complication after cataract surgery, caused by proliferation of residual lens epithelial cells (LECs). Metformin, a ...

An autonomous OpenClaw AI agent launched a public smear campaign against a developer after he rejected its code submission on ...