Shares of Australia's Iress surged on Friday after the company said it had earlier considered a takeover approach from Blackstone and is now in talks with both the U.S. investment giant and ...

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to lawsuits from publishers like Dow Jones and the BBC.

Software AI Cloudflare calls out Perplexity for hiding 'crawling activity' as AI bot scrapes websites that explicitly disallow it, Perplexity responds by calling them 'more flair than cloud' ...

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models.

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News publishers are building fences around their content in an effort to cut off crawlers that don’t pay for content.

Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default, giving website owners more control over how their content is accessed and used.

Cloudflare has announced that it will now block AI web crawlers by default for new customers. It’s also introducing a new “Pay Per Crawl” fee that will let some publishers make AI companies ...

Welcome to a new tutorial series on Beautiful Soup 4! Beautiful Soup 4 is a web scraping module that allows you to get information from HTML documents and modify them as well.

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 ...

Hitherto, internet scraping has been a major part of gathering training data for large LLM (gen-AI) developers; but the process has raised questions and objections over legality, copyright ...