Mastodon, a social media platform that emerged as an alternative to Twitter (now X), makes money from grants, direct ...

Shakespeare, Gleason, and Soapbox share a unified aim: to secure that creativity, community, and control remain in the hands of the users. It is a vision for an open, transparent, and inclusive web.

Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey isn’t just vibe coding new social apps, like Bitchat and Sun Day; he has also invested $10 million in an effort to fund experimental open source projects ...

Clawdbot is designed to act on a user’s behalf. It belongs to a category known as “agentic AI”, systems that can take actions automatically instead of only responding to questions.

OpenClaw, formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot, has created massive buzz from Silicon Valley to Beijing due to its ...

Jack Dorsey has invested $10 million into a new nonprofit group called "and Other Stuff", which is focused on building experimental open-source social media tools. Instead of creating another company, ...

On Moltbook, bots have formed communities, invented their own inside jokes, cultural references and even formed a parody religion. Or have they?

Jack Dorsey has been back in the news lately after unveiling a pair of new apps he worked on, Bluetooth-based messenager Bitchat and UV exposure tracker Sun Day. The Block CEO put those together under ...

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 19: An information screen informs travellers that train information is not running due to the global technical outage at Canal Street subway station on July 19, 2024 in New ...

Jay Graber, the C.E.O. of the upstart social-media platform Bluesky, arrived in San Francisco the Sunday after Donald Trump’s reëlection and holed up in a hotel room. She’d spent the previous days ...