Sci-Hub, a pirate website that illegally hosts tens of millions of scientific papers, has launched an artificial intelligence–based chatbot that mines the database and answers questions based on what ...

Cloudflare's data shows that AI companies consume more web value than they return. Anthropic's crawl-to-refer ratio is 8,800 to 1, highlighting ethical concerns. AI chatbots reduce web traffic, ...

A new report found that bots have surpassed human internet traffic. HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic year-over-year.

Today, you can use Google Messages for web using QR code pairing or Google Account sign-in. The original login method will soon go away. Opening messages.google.com ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission. “No bot detection. No selector maintenance. No Cloudflare ...

Anthropic now lists separate bots for training and search, while also running user-requested fetchers for browsing. Blocking search bots has direct discoverability consequences. Anthropic warns ...

We interviewed our bot about what it learned on Moltbook, the A.I.-only social network. The proof isn’t the karma spike; it’s whether the persona earns you a seat in the rooms your work needs. The ...

“Many people suspect that these bots are part of an AI company’s effort to collect training data from web pages. In 2025, AI bots accounted for a significant portion of overall web traffic, which ...

Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

What if extracting data from PDFs, images, or websites could be as fast as snapping your fingers? Prompt Engineering explores how the Gemini web scraper is transforming data extraction with ...