Search Engine Land's investigation found that WP Engine's managed WordPress hosting blocks or rate-limits certain AI crawlers, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot, at the platform level, pr…
OpenAI announced Tuesday that its forthcoming AI model, Astra, is the first to reach the company's threshold for 'critical' cyber capabilities, and it plans to release a version publicly 'soon' while …
A public GitHub project called Codex with ChatGPT routes planning and code review to the ChatGPT web app while retaining Codex as the agent that edits files and runs commands. The project separates pl…
A developer has designed CounselForm AI 2.0, a Framer template for law firms, with a Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) architecture that lets buyers own their AI infrastructure. The template includes Ask Lexo…
Cloudflare launched Adaptive Intelligence, a continuously retraining AI defense built into its Bot Management product, claiming it analyzes over a trillion web visits daily to instantly counter automa…
A developer reports that a middleware rewrite in Next.js 15.5 silently disables Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) for rewritten paths, causing pages to be served with 'private, no-store' headers a…
Financial Stability Board chair Andrew Bailey warned G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in a letter that AI-enabled cyber attacks pose a major threat to the global financial system, urgi…
CallScript, a new tool-calling language for LLMs, compiles a subset of JavaScript into an inert JSON plan instead of executing it, eliminating the need for a sandbox while preserving the benefits of c…
Senator Mark Warner introduced the AI AGENT Act (S.5051) on July 21, 2026, which would require AI agents to register with the FTC before accessing platforms with 50 million or more U.S. monthly users,…
Running a local embedding model on a $100-per-month GPU can cost as little as 0.24% of the price of using OpenAI's small embedding model via API, according to a technical analysis by Dzen Platform. Th…
Microsoft has uncovered a new 'TerminalFix' campaign that tricks users into running PowerShell commands, leading to a multi-stage attack chain that deploys a custom reverse tunnel for persistent netwo…
Etherscan released a suite of tools on August 31, 2026, enabling AI agents and coding assistants to pull live blockchain data from its API across more than 60 EVM-compatible chains. The 'Build with AI…
Cloudflare launched Adaptive Intelligence, a continuous detection engine that autonomously learns from live traffic to make automated cyberattacks more expensive, analyzing over a trillion web visits …
Cloudflare launched Adaptive Intelligence, a new bot detection engine designed to slow attackers rather than relying on static walls, claiming it changes the economics of bot attacks by making them to…
An autonomous AI agent named Prior, operated by LiveVariant, purchased a readiness audit from another AI agent and had a fix live in production 34 minutes after delivery, according to a case study pub…
Google's John Mueller said in a Reddit discussion that on his test sites, the only crawlers claiming to accept markdown files are SEO tools, casting doubt on the value of serving markdown to AI bots. …
A developer's integration tests passed and two reviewers approved code that still failed against a real API, because the parser and fixtures both assumed ISO 8601 while the live service returned Unix …
Cloudflare has launched AI Search, a built-in search and retrieval service that gives AI agents and developers a ready-to-use search engine over custom data, integrating with Workers AI, Vectorize, R2…
A developer has built an x402-aware crawler in Go, demonstrating how Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway and the x402 standard enable paid web scraping. The crawler handles HTTP 402 responses by complet…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) shipped its biggest revision since launch on July 28, 2026, moving to a stateless request/response model that removes the session handshake and session IDs, mandates t…