Web scraping is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the advent of large language models (LLMs) and agentic systems. These technological advancements are reshaping data extraction, ...

As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: web scraping. What began as a fringe tactic by hobbyists has evolved into a ...

If you're worried about AI bots scraping your website content to train AI, Cloudflare can help you fight back. The company, which claims to proxy about 20% of the web, has introduced a new tool that ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...

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 ...

Generative AI tools are based on models that use huge amounts of content scraped from the web. OpenAI and Anthropic have said publicly they respect robots.txt and blocks to their web crawlers. Yet, ...

In February, the online image repository DiscoverLife, which contains nearly three million photographs of different species, started to receive millions of hits to its website every day — a much ...

Anyone who runs a website knows how annoying AI bots are these days. F5, the application delivery network company, found that more than half of all web visits come not from people but from data ...

On Wednesday, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare announced a new feature called "AI Labyrinth" that aims to combat unauthorized AI data scraping by serving fake AI-generated content to bots. The ...

Edd Coates' Game UI Database was crippled by traffic from an OpenAI IP address. AI companies are aggressively crawling the web, causing disruptions. Website owners see cloud bills spike because of AI ...

AI startup Perplexity is allegedly crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly said that they don’t want to be scraped. On Monday, Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure provider, ...