Martech startup Fibr AI has raised $5.7 million in a seed round led by Accel, following its $1.8 million pre-seed in 2024. Founded in 2023 ...

Google's extensive web crawling capabilities, significantly exceeding competitors like OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, and Meta, could grant ...

AI crawlers from major tech firms are scraping vast amounts of web content without permission, undermining traffic and revenues for publish...

In an exclusive interview with ET's Samidha Sharma, Srinivas said that traditional web indexes were designed for users clicking through lin...

In a blog post, Cloudflare alleged that Perplexity initially uses a declared user agent for its bots, and later switches to undeclared, gen...

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are reducing traffic to news websites by providing direct summaries, threatening media revenue models. As ...

The tool allows website owners to choose whether artificial intelligence crawlers can access their material and set a price for access thro...

AI crawlers are computer programs that collect data from websites to train large language models. Enterprises are increasingly blocking AI ...

Whether GenAI-based search can ever dethrone incumbents like Google Chrome is still a far sight. But if it does, it could cause a tectonic ...

Apple explained in the paper that its main aim is to assist users with everyday tasks. “Our models are designed to help users with daily ac...

AI startups face scrutiny for bypassing Reddit's updated scraping rules. Plagiarism accusations against firms like Perplexity highlight the...

Perplexity likely bypassed web crawler blocks via the Robots Exclusion Protocol, as reported by Wired, using analytics to track AI traffic.

OpenAI has refuted some of these allegations and claimed that the fair use doctrine of copyright laws will apply in its case. ET explains t...

Last week’s copyright infringement lawsuit by The New York Times ( NYT) against ChatGPT- maker OpenAI has opened another battlefront betwee...

The BBC's director of nations, Rhodri Talfan Davies, believes that the use of artificial intelligence (AI), specifically Generative AI (Gen...

ML deepens the trench between online content and its distribution. Publishers have been seeking a larger share of online advertising revenu...

OpenAI's GPTBot plans to expand the horizons of AI through web crawling.