Cloudflare launches ‘Adaptive Intelligence’ to fight AI-era bot attacks in real timeCloudflare introduced Adaptive Intelligence for real-time cyberattack detection. This engine learns from global internet traffic to block e...
31 Aug, 2026, 07.21 PM IST
Google’s search monopoly is becoming an AI monopolyGoogle's search crawler now feeds its artificial intelligence models, creating an unfair advantage. This strategy accelerates automated int...
10 Aug, 2026, 09.04 AM IST
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...
31 Mar, 2026, 06.07 PM IST
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...
06 Dec, 2025, 12.43 AM IST
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...
13 Nov, 2025, 08.10 AM IST
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...
05 Nov, 2025, 04.13 PM IST
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...
23 Oct, 2025, 12.21 AM IST
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...
12 Aug, 2025, 01.57 AM IST
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...
06 Aug, 2025, 04.02 PM IST
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 ...
15 Dec, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
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...
02 Dec, 2024, 01.39 PM IST
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...
16 Oct, 2024, 08.47 AM IST
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...
26 Jun, 2024, 09.17 AM IST
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.
21 Jun, 2024, 08.47 PM IST
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 ...
06 Jul, 2023, 02.42 AM IST
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...
04 Oct, 2022, 02.23 PM IST
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...
23 Aug, 2021, 07.09 PM IST