The Verge

The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up

Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.
Forbes

Hundreds Of Anthropic Chatbot Transcripts Showed Up In Google Search

Anthropic is now the third AI company whose chatbot conversations with users have become inadvertently accessible in search results from Google. The conversations appeared to be ones that users of its ...
PC Gamer

'The fact is that today, the open web is already in rapid decline,' says Google in court, then quickly rows back on that statement

Browsers Critics claim the latest judgement against Google is a 'feckless remedy to the most storied case of monopolisation of the past quarter century' while the US DOJ says 'we're not done' Browsers ...
TechSpot

Reddit, Yahoo, and other publishers roll out licensing protocol, pressuring AI companies to pay for scraped data

In a nutshell: Several major online platforms annd publishers including Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Ziff Davis, and Quora have announced support for a new licensing standard that allows web publishers and ...
Hosted on MSN

Major publisher accuses Google of not playing fair with AI web crawler tactic

People CEO Neil Vogel has criticized web crawlers, accusing Google, the technology heavyweight, of being a bad actor. According to reports, the CEO of the publishing firm that operates over 40 brands ...
PC Gamer

Cloudflare mitigates biggest ever DDoS attack, which tried to pelt its target with 11.5 Tbps of data in less than a minute

Considering figures from last year suggested that bots account for half of global web traffic, charging AI companies for the privilege of slurping up 'training data' is hardly an unpopular idea.