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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…

  • Slashdot: America’s Los Alamos Lab Is Now Investing Heavily In AI For Science

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/03/0447207/americas-los-alamos-lab-is-now-investing-heavily-in-ai-for-science Source: Slashdot Title: America’s Los Alamos Lab Is Now Investing Heavily In AI For Science Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the establishment of a National Security AI Office at Los Alamos National Lab, emphasizing the importance of AI in advancing scientific research and national security. With…

  • Slashdot: Facing US Chip Restrictions, China Pitches Global Cooperation on AI

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/02/030232/facing-us-chip-restrictions-china-pitches-global-cooperation-on-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Facing US Chip Restrictions, China Pitches Global Cooperation on AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the recent announcements from China at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference regarding the establishment of an international organization for AI regulation and a cooperative action plan for responsible…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s Access To Claude Over Terms of Service Violation

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/01/2237220/anthropic-revokes-openais-access-to-claude-over-terms-of-service-violation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s Access To Claude Over Terms of Service Violation Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Anthropic revoking OpenAI’s API access due to violations of terms of service, emphasizing the competitive dynamics within AI development. This situation highlights the importance of compliance with…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: More model releases on 31st July

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/more-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: More model releases on 31st July Feedly Summary: Here are a few more model releases from today, to round out a very busy July: Cohere released Command A Vision, their first multi-modal (image input) LLM. Like their others it’s open weights under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, so…

  • The Register: Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/microsoft_updates_azure_ai_speech/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake Feedly Summary: No way this will be abused Microsoft has upgraded Azure AI Speech so that users can rapidly generate a voice replica with just a few seconds of sampled speech.… AI Summary…