Web scraping is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the advent of large language models (LLMs) and agentic systems. These technological advancements are reshaping data extraction, ...

In the age of generative AI, when chatbots can provide detailed answers to questions based on content pulled from the internet, the line between fair use and plagiarism, and between routine web ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...

iFixit’s CEO says ClaudeBot hit the website’s servers ‘a million times in 24 hours.’ iFixit’s CEO says ClaudeBot hit the website’s servers ‘a million times in 24 hours.’ is a news writer focused on ...

Data has become the cornerstone of modern business strategy, helping companies stay ahead in competitive industries. Among the many ways to gather data, web scraping has emerged as an indispensable ...

It’s too soon to say how the spate of deals between AI companies and publishers will shake out. OpenAI has already scored one clear win, though: Its web crawlers aren’t getting blocked by top news ...

If you're worried about AI bots scraping your website content to train AI, Cloudflare can help you fight back. The company, which claims to proxy about 20% of the web, has introduced a new tool that ...

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With robots.txt preferences widely ignored, the AI Preferences Working Group is developing a new way for publishers to shield content from AI bot scraping. For web publishers, stopping AI bots from ...