Round Hill Music filed separate copyright infringement lawsuits against AI companies Suno and Anthropic on Monday, August 17, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, allegi…
Web scraping of publicly accessible data is legally defensible, with US courts repeatedly confirming that scraping data viewable without a login does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act or pl…
Retriever has launched an in-browser agentic dataset enrichment tool that lets users bulk-enrich any webpage, such as a conference attendee list, with LinkedIn profiles and work emails, then score and…
A supply-chain hack exposed internal logs showing AI music startup Suno scraped over 2 million clips from YouTube Music alone, totaling roughly 113,879 hours of audio, as part of its training data pip…
A developer shares 11 open-source tools installed on every new development machine, including Git, VS Code, Wave Terminal, Docker, and Playwright, claiming they save thousands of hours. The tools are …
A hacker breached AI music startup Suno and leaked source code revealing the company trained its model by scraping millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and Pond5, including over 2 million Y…
Hacked Suno source code reviewed by 404 Media reveals the AI music company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, IMSLP, MuseScore and podcast RSS feeds to build training li…
OpenAI removed the `result_source` field from ChatGPT's network traffic on 21 July and added a fifth retrieval pipe, `bing`, that is being rolled out to some accounts but not others, according to a te…
A developer ran 1,790 measurements across five AI engines and found that most AI visibility dashboards report misleading numbers. Branded prompts inflate scores, and different engines produce conflict…
The problem of AI scraper bots overwhelming websites with traffic has intensified since early 2025, with attacks now coming from millions of unique IP addresses via residential proxy networks. These n…
Two new analyses by Chris Green and Suganthan Mohanadasan found that ChatGPT's cited sources change when its hidden search pipelines switch between retrieval systems like Labrador, Bright, Oxylabs, an…
A developer's guide reveals that bypassing anti-bot walls for production-ready web scraping requires understanding modern detection systems like browser fingerprints, TLS characteristics, IP reputatio…
A user analyzed ChatGPT's network traffic to reveal how the AI selects sources, finding internal labels like 'result_source' with values such as 'serp', 'bright', and 'oxylabs', and six 'turn_use_case…
A new web data infrastructure layer is emerging to enable AI models to access real-time, structured data at scale, overcoming the web's inherent design limitations. Bright Data CEO Or Lenchner emphasi…
Both U.S. and Chinese AI firms are expanding in Singapore, positioning the city-state as a potential neutral AI hub. OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Tencent have established operations there, …
A new open-source tool lets brands audit how they appear in AI assistant recommendations from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Mode, revealing which competitors are cited and which queries they are miss…
AGI House, the Hillsborough, California community founded by Rocky Yu in 2023, is shifting its programming toward AI agents and automation with a series of build events in San Francisco, including a J…
Independent researcher Buchodi found that free apps on smart-TV platforms from Samsung, LG, and others are embedding a Bright Data SDK that turns home devices into residential proxy nodes for web scra…
Smart TV owners are unknowingly contributing to the AI data-scraping economy through a software development kit (SDK) from data-collection firm Bright Data, which is embedded in consumer apps and turn…
A developer tested seven SERP APIs in 2026 and found that SerpApi charges 10x more than several competitors offering identical functionality, with a $1,000/month cost for 100,000 requests versus $90/m…