Google is Taking SerpApi to Court for Data Scraping on Search Results

Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi over massive data scraping on Search results. Is public search data truly free for ...

Malicious extensions in Chrome Web store steal user credentials

Two Chrome extensions in the Web Store named 'Phantom Shuttle' are posing as plugins for a proxy service to hijack user ...
CNN

Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation

In the popular children’s book “Charlotte’s Web,” the title character, a spider, uses her web as an instrument of good to help secure the freedom of Wilbur, a pig on her farm. Federal immigration ...
Digital Trends

AI browsers are here, and you need to learn how to use the web properly

About a month ago, I gave a tech demo to a bunch of freshman students on how to create a custom skill in an AI browser and automate the research work on assignments. Instead of bogging them down with ...
SiliconANGLE

Reddit is suing Perplexity and AI data scraping firms for using its data without permission

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 ...
The Hill

OpenAI launches web browser ChatGPT Atlas: How to start using it

(NEXSTAR) – OpenAI announced Tuesday it is launching a ChatGPT-powered web browser called Atlas that will compete directly with widely-used Google Chrome. The news appeared to ripple into the stock ...
Pulitzer Center

How Non-Coding Journalists Can Build Web Scrapers With AI (Examples and Prompts Included)

Data is a crucial part of investigative journalism: It helps journalists verify hypotheses, reveal hidden insights, follow the money, scale investigations, and add credibility to stories. The Pulitzer ...
BGR

Gemini 2.5 Computer Use Is An AI Model That Can Browse The Web Like You Do

Google on Tuesday announced a brand-new AI model called Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, releasing it in preview to developers. If you've been following the AI industry, you might be familiar with the term ...
Bleeping Computer

LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...
Morningstar

CREATOR MEDIA COMPANY RAPTIVE ANNOUNCES 'TERMS OF CONTENT USE' AGREEMENT TO ESTABLISH PROTECTIONS AGAINST AI SCRAPING

Raptive is protecting its 6,000+ creator network by implementing an initiative to prevent AI crawlers from scraping independent publishers' content on the open web The new "Terms of Content Use" ...
New York Magazine

The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End

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 ...