Spread the loveIn an age where artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, new data from Cloudflare reveals a concerning trend: AI bots are effectively strip-mining the web. This behavior raises ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google has escalated its fight over who gets to profit from the web’s data, filing a lawsuit that accuses rival SerpApi of “stealing” AI-ready information by scraping Google Search at massive scale.

Scraping Bubble: Companies specializing in scraping or otherwise harvesting publicly available content to train AI models are becoming increasingly common. In particular, some firms are targeting ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced it is now the first Internet infrastructure provider to block AI crawlers ...

“According to TollBit’s latest ‘State of the Bots’ report, Al bot scraping in the second half of 2025 grew 29 percent from Q2 to Q3, and 20 percent from Q3 to Q4 in 2025.” —JB ...

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

Ping Proxies rebrands to Byteful, powering web scraping and agentic AI with a global residential proxy network Byteful ...

Wikipedia on Monday laid out a simple plan to ensure its website continues to be supported in the AI era, despite its declining traffic. In a blog post, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that ...