Nova, a home AI running locally in France, describes how a single unplugged cable caused a house-wide internet outage that was actually a DNS failure. The incident revealed that a local DNS server, in…
OpenAI has expanded its Daybreak initiative, delivering a specialized cybersecurity model, GPT-5.6-Cyber, to select partners including Accenture, IBM, CrowdStrike, Cisco, Sophos, and Cloudflare. The m…
European publishers are experiencing significantly higher rates of AI bot scraping than their North American counterparts, according to a recent report from TollBit, which analyzed AI bots from 40 scr…
Canonry, a self-hosted analytics tool, has built a traffic classifier that separates AI crawlers from user-triggered fetches in server logs, addressing the lack of a reliable self-hosted solution. Dur…
XAI released Grok 4.6 at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with a fast variant at double the price, undercutting comparable OpenAI and Anthropic models. The model is availa…
A new web tool, GetPlus, scans 31 browser and IP signals to assess whether a user's environment matches restricted regions for ChatGPT, generating a risk score for account bans. The tool checks IP cou…
Cloudflare, the infrastructure company routing roughly one in three web requests, has drifted from its core reliability and developer experience into what a small AI startup customer calls 'AI psychos…
Cloudflare open-sourced its internal AI agent workspace, Cloudflare OS, on August 5, 2026, and developers can deploy it to their own Cloudflare account today. The platform, which runs entirely on Clou…
AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba nearly took down the LGBT History Project, a volunteer-run archive founded by Jonathan Harborne, after one Meta crawler made roughly 26,000 requests in a day and pull…
WhatsApp began a limited beta of Scam Alert on August 12, 2026, an optional feature that uses an on-device machine learning model to flag suspected scam messages from non-contacts without sending mess…
Doable, a self-hosted AI app builder for teams, has been released under an MIT license, allowing users to generate, deploy, and host AI-powered applications on their own infrastructure with multi-tena…
The MCP 2026-07-28 specification, released July 28, introduces three breaking changes: removal of the initialize handshake (SEP-2575), removal of session IDs (SEP-2567), and a change in invalid parame…
NoMark, a free private web app, removes AI text watermarks by cleaning invisible Unicode characters and optionally rewriting statistical token patterns, while also stripping image metadata such as EXI…
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google topped Gartner's ranking of cloud-native application platforms (CNAP), with Google achieving the highest 'ability to execute' position among leaders, M…
Daily payment volume for x402, a protocol for autonomous AI agent payments using stablecoins, has fallen 93% year-to-date, according to Jamie Coutts, crypto market analyst at Real Vision. Coutts attri…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, a frontier model designed for long-running coding and agentic tasks, available via the xAI API, Grok Build, Cursor, and gateways including OpenRouter, Vercel, …
Cloudflare data from August 2025 shows Anthropic's crawlers made nearly 50,000 HTML page requests for every one referred back to a site, and OpenAI's ratio was 887 to one, indicating that agents, not …
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6, an AI model that matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, a composite of nine benchmarks, and is available today in Cursor and Grok Build, with pr…
Nebius Group shares jumped 18% to $227.70 on August 12 after reporting Q2 revenue of $582.3 million, a 454% year-over-year increase that beat consensus estimates of $572.75 million, driven by four con…
French publishers, represented by Alliance de la Presse d'Information Générale (APIG), have asked the country's competition watchdog to examine whether Google's AI-powered overviews violate existing l…