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 ...

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 ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...

A hot potato: Generative AI models have to be trained with an inordinate amount of source material before they are ready for prime time, and that can be a problem for creative professionals that don't ...

Cloudflare finds that Perplexity AI is 'repeatedly modifying' the company’s web-crawling bots to evade data-scraping measures on third-party websites. When he's not battling bugs and robots in ...

Reddit this week filed suit against Perplexity and three other companies — Oxylabs UAB, AWM Proxy, and Serp Api — for ...

It really is the great rock n’ roll swindle. Billboard has published evidence collated by the international music publishing trade association, the ICMP that some of the world’s biggest tech companies ...

UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), together with eleven data protection and privacy authorities from around the world, have published a statement calling social media platforms to up their ...

What just happened? Cloudflare is experimenting with a new way to prevent AI crawlers from scraping website content. The CDN/security company has announced that it will block them from accessing ...