Google says it has started using AI agents to analyse and scrape the mostly unmapped dark web for cybersecurity threats. Agents will automatically visit scores of deep web hacker forums and ...

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 ...

SerpApi alleges it’s just doing ‘what Google does to everyone else.’ SerpApi alleges it’s just doing ‘what Google does to everyone else.’ is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

Google claims SerpApi built tools specifically to bypass its new "SearchGuard" defense system. The lawsuit targets the "trafficking" of circumvention tools under the DMCA, not just scraping. Google is ...

Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: ...

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 ...

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Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

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 ...

However, actions have a habit of inspiring reactions. Lawsuits are mounting as more media companies take on the AI giants over copyright, which may yet prove decisive—recent rulings notwithstanding.