Cloudflare is accusing the AI-powered answer engine Perplexity of using "stealth crawling behavior" to scrape content from websites.

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to lawsuits from publishers like Dow Jones and the BBC.

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.

LONDON — Zara has removed two images from its website following a single complaint to Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority, the independent regulator for advertising.

The Python Software Foundation warned users this week that threat actors are trying to steal their credentials in phishing attacks using a fake Python Package Index (PyPI) website.

Some websites go out of their way to block AI from scraping their content, but according to Cloudflare, Perplexity is scraping them anyway.

The Library of Congress has given a fuller explanation as to why large sections of the U.S. Constitution suddenly vanished from its official website. As TechCrunch previously reported, parts of ...

AI startup Perplexity is accused of scraping content from websites that block such actions. Cloudflare reported deceptive methods used by Perplexity to bypass restrictions.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is promoting ICE's website with a photo from "South Park" amid the show's war against Donald Trump.

Anthropic says it has revoked OpenAI's access to the Claude API after ChatGPT's engineers were found using Claude's coding tools.