Why the web as we know it may fade and what AI, personal agents, and data interfaces mean for publishers, SEO, and commerce.

A swarm of AI "crawlers" is running rampant on the internet, scouring billions of websites for data to feed algorithms at leading tech companies -- all without permission or payment, upending the ...

BrowserAct, a global automation company, has launched a major update to its intelligent web scraping and data-agent platform -- introducing a Precision Automation Framework designed to minimize AI ...

The Wikimedia Foundation urged AI companies, developers and large-scale users to stop scraping Wikipedia’s web pages en-masse ...

Wikipedia is asking AI companies to stop scraping its content and instead use its paid API to ensure proper credit and ...

Microsoft researchers say that an OpenAI API is being abused by bad actors for long-term 'espionage' operations.

Most scraping failures are predictable once you look at the numbers. JavaScript powers over 98% of websites, so non-rendering fetchers naturally miss content. About half of global web traffic is ...

It helps journalists verify hypotheses, reveal hidden insights, follow the money, scale investigations, and add credibility to stories. The Pulitzer Center’s Data and Research team has supported major ...

We look at the impact data-scraping robots from AI firms are having on the online encyclopedia used by hundreds of millions of people. Also in this edition of Tech Life: if you work in the fashion ...

Much of today’s most valuable environmental information is locked inside inaccessible websites and fragmented datasets. Web scraping empowers journalists to extract, organize, and analyze information ...