Merch, vinyl, hotels and credit cards: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour helped a bunch of companies – but hurt others

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Taylor Swift on stage on the Eras Tour.

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OpenAI just admitted it has a bot that crawls the web to collect AI training data. If you don't block GPTbot, that's self-sabotage.

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Huntsman spider.

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Twitter's new rivals suffer similar problems: Threads to use rate limits due to spam and Bluesky missed racist slurs

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The Threads app and Adam Mosseri.

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A business owner suing Twitter over unpaid bills says the company ignored her and answered her with a bot following Elon Musk's takeover

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Elon Musk appears to offer $1 million bounty to 'convict' those responsible for Twitter 'botnets'

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Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, is pushing for a harder-driving culture at the company.
Elon Musk is CEO of Twitter.

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Massive Twitter Bot Farm Is Heaping Praise on Trump and Trashing DeSantis

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Twitter has seen its share of political bot campaigns, but since spring 2022 there’s been a long-running, highly prolific bot campaign proliferating through Twitter to support former President Donald Trump. Even if you first thought it’s just the Russians again, a new report suggests these fake accounts were created a…

TikTokers are roasting McDonald's hilarious drive-thru AI order fails — and it shows that robots won't take over restaurants any time soon

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TikTokers are frustrated with ordering bots at McDonald's.

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Open Channel: What Twitter Bots Will You Miss After the API Change?

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It probably goes without saying, but Elon Musk’s current tenure as Twitter’s CEO has been pretty chaotic, and not in the fun way.

Elon Musk says bots making 'good content' will be exempt from Twitter's plan to charge for API access

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Elon Musk smiles as he addresses guests at the Offshore Northern Seas 2022 (ONS) meeting in Stavanger, Norway on August 29, 2022.

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Elon Musk proposes a monthly $100 charge for developers who want to access Twitter's API, saying it would clean up 'bad' bots

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Twitter owner Elon Musk proposed charging $100 a month for access to Twitter's API.

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