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…
A developer achieved a 100% join rate on a 96-record Crunchbase-to-CRM dataset by replacing exact string matching with fuzzy matching using the RapidFuzz library, up from a 58% rate with normalized ex…