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.

Perplexity has long been accused of bypassing anti-scraping measures. A new report shows that it may actually be getting worse.

Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again The company's bots appear to be 'stealth crawling' sites that have them blocked.

Cloudflare takes a stand on AI crawlers, which could enable publishers to finally make peace with the bots scooping up their content.

Fed up with AI scraping your content? This open-source bot blocker can help - here's how Meet Anubis, the self-hosted firewall that's stopping AI bots in their tracks.

A new tool turns otherwise legitimate extensions for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox into bots that make your browser someone else's tool, and gets them paid in the process.

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?

Cloudflare hosts about 20 percent of the Web, and the move is seen as a win for the publishing industry. Previously, website owners using Cloudflare could choose to block AI bots, also known as ...

Disney and NBCUniversal sued an artificial intelligence developer for allegedly infringing on their protected works, the first Hollywood corporate titans to join a mushrooming legal war pitting ...

In a complaint filed in San Francisco this week, Reddit claims that Anthropic intentionally trained its LLMs on content created by Reddit users without requesting consent, thereby ...

Web-scraping AI bots cause disruption for scientific databases and journals Automated programs gathering training data for artificial-intelligence tools are overwhelming academic websites.