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

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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…

  • Slashdot: ChatGPT Nears 700 Million Weekly Users, Up 4x From Last Year

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/200209/chatgpt-nears-700-million-weekly-users-up-4x-from-last-year?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ChatGPT Nears 700 Million Weekly Users, Up 4x From Last Year Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s ChatGPT is experiencing significant growth, with weekly active users approaching 700 million and daily user messages exceeding three billion. This surge reflects the increasing integration of AI tools in…

  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Nick Turley

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/nick-turley/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Nick Turley Feedly Summary: This week, ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly active users — up from 500M at the end of March and 4× since last year. — Nick Turley, Head of ChatGPT, OpenAI Tags: openai, chatgpt, ai AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/privacy-design/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences Feedly Summary: ChatGPT just removed their “make this chat discoverable" sharing feature, after it turned out a material volume of users had inadvertantly made their private chats available via Google search. Dane Stuckey, CISO…

  • Embrace The Red: Turning ChatGPT Codex Into A ZombAI Agent

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/chatgpt-codex-remote-control-zombai/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Turning ChatGPT Codex Into A ZombAI Agent Feedly Summary: Today we cover ChatGPT Codex as part of the Month of AI Bugs series. ChatGPT Codex is a cloud-based software engineering agent that answers codebase questions, executes code, and drafts pull requests. In particular, this post will demonstrate…

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

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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…

  • The Register: OpenAI removes ChatGPT self-doxing option

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/openai_removes_chatgpt_selfdoxing_option/ Source: The Register Title: OpenAI removes ChatGPT self-doxing option Feedly Summary: Checkbox to make chatbot conversations appear in search engines deemed a footgun OpenAI has removed the option to make ChatGPT interactions indexable by search engines to prevent users from unwittingly exposing sensitive information.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s decision…