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Have machine in the loop: It is time to flip the human-in-the-loop modelTwo stories highlight how AI can empower rather than replace humans. In one, a software engineer used tools like ChatGPT and AlphaFold, alo...
Personal data isn't collected: MHA on security agencies using open-source intelligence from public sourcesSecurity agencies are utilizing open-source intelligence from public sources like social media for information gathering, assuring no priva...
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 ...
New York Times sues Perplexity AI for 'illegal' copying of contentThe New York Times has filed a lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity. The Times claims Perplexity copied and used its articles without perm...
Ex-Twitter CEO Agrawal's AI search startup Parallel raises $100 millionAI startup Parallel Web Systems, founded by ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has raised $100 million at a $740 million valuation. The firm bui...
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...
Reddit locks out Wayback machine to stop AI from scraping old postsReddit has restricted the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from extensively capturing its content due to concerns over unauthorized AI da...
Not One, But 100: Manus’s Wide Research Is a Direct Hit on the AI EliteManus has just detonated a bombshell in the AI space with the launch of Wide Research. A radically new multi-agent system capable of deploy...
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...
NYT sends AI startup Perplexity 'cease and desist' notice over content useSince the introduction of ChatGPT, publishers have been raising the alarm on chatbots which can comb the internet to find information and c...
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...
Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm saysPerplexity likely bypassed web crawler blocks via the Robots Exclusion Protocol, as reported by Wired, using analytics to track AI traffic.
ETtech Explainer | NYT vs OpenAI: Why news publishers are fighting Big Tech over LLMsLast week’s copyright infringement lawsuit by The New York Times ( NYT) against ChatGPT- maker OpenAI has opened another battlefront betwee...
Google training Bard with scraped web data? Here’s everything you may want to knowGoogle has acknowledged training its AI systems using publicly available web data, prompting concerns over privacy, copyright infringement ...
ETtech Explainer: Will rate limits accelerate the decline in Twitter’s revenue?Citing advertising and marketing industry executives, a Reuters report said the rate limits could impede efforts by Twitter’s new chief exe...
Meta settles lawsuits with 2 firms engaged in scraping its dataMeta (formerly Facebook) has settled a lawsuit for "significant sum" against two companies that were engaged in data scraping operations on...
Data breach or data scraping? With over 38 million records up for grabs, IndiaMART has some answering to doOn Monday, Troy Hunt, creator of data-breach record index Have I Been Pwned, put out a tweet asking for the coordinates of the security con...
Facebook shuts out NYU academics' research on political adsFacebook says the researchers violated its terms of service and were involved in unauthorized data collection from its massive network. The...