Cloudflare’s chief executive conceded it happened faster than he predicted: bots have passed humans in online traffic for the first time in history. Meta is monetizing the shift with a tireless salesforce across WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram; Amazon is feeding the bots product photos of items that may not exist.
Four lab chiefs — Hassabis, Altman, Amodei, Suleyman — signed an open letter asking Congress to mandate screening of synthetic DNA orders, warning that AI now outperforms PhD-level virologists.