AI-assisted web scraping is the use of traditional scraping methods alongside machine learning models to detect patterns, extract data and handle dynamic pages with less manual rule-writing. According ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

Google has escalated its fight over who gets to profit from the web’s data, filing a lawsuit that accuses rival SerpApi of ...

Publishers are stepping up efforts to protect their websites from tech companies that hoover up content for new AI tools. The media companies have sued, forged licensing deals to be compensated for ...

Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest internet infrastructure providers, has begun blocking AI web crawlers by default unless they receive direct permission from site owners. This new policy changes ...

New data shows AI bots pushing deeper into the web, prompting publishers to roll out more aggressive defenses.

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...

Major news publishers have blocked Internet Archive access due to fears AI companies will use it as a backdoor to scrape content without authorization.

Stream Connecticut News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Internet firm Cloudflare will start blocking artificial intelligence crawlers from accessing content without website owners' permission or ...

An increasing number of agencies are waking up to a growing threat: AI companies are quietly scraping creative work on the web without permission. What started as a concern for authors and artists is ...

Exclusive: 'Reddit for agentic AI' Moltbook sees proxy bots share workarounds for web scraping, leaving carriers and more at risk from Open Claw dangers ...