Social media giant Reddit is suing Perplexity AI and three other firms over alleged “industrial-scale” scraping of posts from its website. Perplexity – a San Francisco-based startup with its own ...

In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, Reddit accused an AI search engine, Perplexity, of conspiring with several companies to illegally scrape Reddit content from Google search results, allegedly dodging ...

I don’t use Microsoft Excel all that often, so it remains a bit of a mystery to me. I can enter text and create graphs and that’s basically it. That’s why I’ve set myself a goal to learn one new Excel ...

LinkedIn is suing a company it claims used a network of millions of fake accounts to scrape data from its members and sell it to third parties on an “industrial scale”—charging clients up to $15,000 ...

AI bots are bypassing rules and indexing publisher content at scale. A new report reveals just how much—and who might benefit. Blocking them is an option, but how effective is it? And what types of ...

In a Friday court filing, Google’s lawyers wrote: That line directly contradicts what Google executives and representatives have been saying for months. Yet in court, Google is saying the web is ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

The Internet Archive can now only crawl Reddit's homepage. Reddit's goal is to block AI firms from scraping Reddit user data. Publishers (and others) are suing AI companies for copyright infringement.

Gone are the days when the web was dominated by humans posting social media updates or exchanging memes. Earlier this year, for the first time since the data has been tracked, web-browsing bots, ...