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Is internet more AI-driven than human? Report reveals the way forwardPer a report by cybersecurity firm HUMAN Security, in 2025, automated internet traffic grew 23.51% YoY, almost eight times faster than the ...- Wikipedia seeks more AI licensing deals similar to Google tie-up, co-founder Wales saysSpeaking in an interview at the Reuters NEXT summit in New York, Wales said that tech companies' usage of freely available Wikipedia knowle...
- AI bots traffic has surged 300%, is disrupting online business: Akamai reportAI bots have surged 300% in a year, disrupting online operations, Akamai’s 2025 report shows. These bots, driven by content scraping, now d...
- Reddit accuses 'data scraper' companies of stealing its informationReddit is taking a firm stand against four data scraping companies, including SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy, by initiating legal proceedin...
- AI-led ad frauds skim billions from brands one click at a timeFrom China to Egypt, the murky world of fake clicks is thriving. So-called “click farms” are inflating website traffic numbers and duping a...
- Cloudflare introduces default blocking of AI data scrapersCloudflare has introduced a new setting allowing websites to block AI bots from scraping content without permission. The move aims to prote...
- Cloudflare launches tool to help website owners monetise AI bot crawler accessThe tool allows website owners to choose whether artificial intelligence crawlers can access their material and set a price for access thro...
- Reddit sues AI startup Anthropic for allegedly using data without permissionAccording to the complaint, Anthropic has resisted entering a licensing agreement even as it trained its Claude chatbot on Reddit content, ...
- Reddit users' comments were used to train AI Chatbot, social media platforms sues artificial intelligence companyReddit has previously entered licensing agreements with Google, OpenAI and other companies that are paying to be able to train their AI sys...
- Wikimedia Just Dropped a Massive Wikipedia Dataset on Kaggle — A Bold Move to Stop AI Bots From ScrapingThe beta dataset is being hosted on Google-owned Kaggle. The dataset features 'structured Wikipedia content in English and French', the Wik...
- Companies alert as along come AI web spidersAI crawlers are computer programs that collect data from websites to train large language models. Enterprises are increasingly blocking AI ...
- Canadian news media are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, but will they win?The lawsuits claim that OpenAI "scraped" large amounts of content from media sites without permission. They have also claimed that the AI c...
- ET Explainer: Cloudflare's new tool aims to block AI bots from scraping website contentCloudflare has introduced a new tool to block AI bots from scraping website content. The tool aims to protect content publishers from unaut...
- AI bots taking over the Internet? Here's how companies are stopping this intrusionArtificial intelligence' rise has created some nasty problems for text-based websites, some of whom are complaining that the performance of...
- Reddit to update web standard to block automated website scrapingAI startups face scrutiny for bypassing Reddit's updated scraping rules. Plagiarism accusations against firms like Perplexity highlight the...
- Stand up to breaking newsAI summaries, including Google's feature, pose some key challenges for society and news publishers. For starters, they have issues with acc...
- Have a human ghost in the AI machineThe widespread use of generative AI raises concerns about bias, particularly when it comes to training on human-generated content. The bias...
- AI chatbots are scraping news reporting and copyrighted content: reportA top US news media trade group is calling out AI technology companies for scraping news material to train their chatbots, a media report s...
- X will soon charge users 'a small monthly payment': Elon MuskElon Musk has suggested that his social media platform, X, may no longer be free in order to combat the issue of bots. Musk proposed a smal...
- Bot detection platform InfiSecure raises $600,000 in seed fundingThe startup offers businesses insights on bot traffic and eliminates unwanted or suspicious behaviour in real-time, using machine-learning ...
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