A developer working on MCPFusion, the open-source TypeScript framework behind Vinkius connectors, built an MCP-based integration that gives AI agents governed access to Bright Data's proxy and web-unl…
A developer published a guide and open-source Node.js pipeline that pairs Bright Data's Scraper Studio with an application layer handling normalization, validation, deduplication, snapshots, and chang…
A developer who switched from Anthropic's Claude Code to OpenAI's Codex (Terra/Sol/Astra) reported that Codex's Astra model generated a one-line git commit message — "Fix YouTube resolver playback and…
A developer benchmarked nine Zillow MCP servers across four scenarios and three calls per task using the official MCP TypeScript SDK as the client, publishing the harness and fixtures on GitHub. HasDa…
Argus, an AI-driven browser automation tool, separates cold and warm email into two physically different transports to comply with provider policies that prohibit cold outreach to scraped lists, using…
Gerencia 360 Music filed a lawsuit against Suno and Bright Data, marking the 140th AI-related lawsuit in the United States. The suit is represented by the same law firm that represented Round Hill Mus…
Open Knowledge Base (open-kb), an open-source tool that maps a company's market by searching for the job each product does rather than the company name, was published on GitHub. The tool, which requir…
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…
Microsoft's open-source MarkItDown Python library, with over 165k GitHub stars and 12 million monthly downloads, converts web pages, PDFs, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and other formats into Ma…
Bright Data launched Scraper Studio, a cloud-hosted scraping environment with an AI agent mode that generates production-ready scrapers from plain-English descriptions, plus a full IDE mode and an AI-…
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…