Selling web users’ personal data is big business — with a projected worth of $400 billion by 2025. In industries as diverse as health insurance and automobile manufacturing, companies that collect and ...

Reworkd’s founders went viral on GitHub last year with AgentGPT, a free tool to build AI agents that acquired more than 100,000 daily users in a week. This earned them a spot in Y Combinator’s summer ...

Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites using automated tools and software. This technique can be incredibly valuable for entrepreneurs because it allows gathering information ...

The common practice of “scraping” a website’s publicly available data has come under legal attack. A landmark court decision (HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) recently concluded that scraping is lawful, but ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

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Meta has lost a claim in its legal battle with an Israeli tech firm Bright Data, which it sued last year for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram via the web. The tech giant, which has a long ...

Web scraping is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the advent of large language models (LLMs) and agentic systems. These technological advancements are reshaping data extraction, ...

The search giant has updated its privacy policy to include Bard and Cloud AI alongside Google Translate under services where collected data may be used. The search giant has updated its privacy policy ...

Generative AI models are changing the economy of the web, making it cheaper to generate lower-quality content. We’re just beginning to see the effects of these changes. Generative AI models are ...