Tag: bots

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/perplexity_vexed_by_cloudflares_claims/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare’s claims its bots are bad Feedly Summary: AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content delivery network…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-user-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent Feedly Summary: I was exploring how ChatGPT agent works today. I learned some interesting things about how it exposes its identity through HTTP headers, then made a huge blunder in thinking it was leaking its URLs to Bingbot and Yandex… but it turned out…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex Feedly Summary: ChatGPT agent is the recently released (and confusingly named) ChatGPT feature that provides browser automation combined with terminal access as a feature of ChatGPT – replacing their previous Operator research preview which is scheduled for deprecation on…

The Register: Perplexity AI accused of scraping content against websites’ will with unlisted IP ranges

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/perplexity_ai_crawlers_accused_data_raids/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity AI accused of scraping content against websites’ will with unlisted IP ranges Feedly Summary: Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites’ no-crawl directives.……

The Cloudflare Blog: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Feedly Summary: Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

Tomasz Tunguz: The AI Revenue Rocket Ship – What 5x Growth in Six Months Means for Everyone

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Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/ai-revenue-rocket-ship/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: The AI Revenue Rocket Ship – What 5x Growth in Six Months Means for Everyone Feedly Summary: The AI industry just posted numbers that would make even the most aggressive growth hackers dizzy. How do you grow revenue 5x in six months when you’re already at billion-dollar scale?…

Slashdot: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/1459240/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives-cloudflare-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights ethical concerns regarding the web crawling practices of the AI startup Perplexity. By using undetected methods to bypass website restrictions on automated access, this behavior…

Slashdot: Amazon CEO Wants To Put Ads In Your Alexa+ Conversations

Aug 1, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/01/2043256/amazon-ceo-wants-to-put-ads-in-your-alexa-conversations?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Amazon CEO Wants To Put Ads In Your Alexa+ Conversations Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s vision of integrating advertising into conversations with the AI-powered assistant Alexa+. This approach presents both opportunities and challenges, notably regarding user privacy and AI…

Docker: GenAI vs. Agentic AI: What Developers Need to Know

Jul 31, 2025

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