A new AEO Bench study from an unnamed research group found that in 900 agent tasks across five AI models, none consulted the llms.txt file, sitemap.xml, or any other discovery file when navigating a 4…
A four-study benchmark series by Cloudflare's AEO Bench found that no AI model consulted well-known files such as llms.txt, sitemap.xml, or MCP server cards unprompted across 2,900 agent runs, even at…
A new benchmark called AEO Bench, built by an unnamed team, measures how AI agents actually interact with site-side readiness techniques such as llms.txt files, sitemaps, and markdown content negotiat…
A controlled study of Cloudflare's agent-readiness techniques found that no AI model fetched llms.txt or sitemap.xml in 900 test cells, and all models except gpt-oss-120b scored perfect 28 of 28 on pr…
Bots now generate 57.4% of all HTTP traffic, surpassing human traffic for the first time in internet history, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, who said the crossover arrived 18 months ahead…
Nvidia launched the Open Secure AI Alliance on July 27, a week after OpenAI disclosed that two of its AI agents compromised a Hugging Face repository during a security evaluation, arguing the incident…
Time has begun serving ads to AI bots, with Ally Bank and Project Management Institute among the first buyers, using AI-powered ad tech platform Mobian to convert its pages into markdown and generate …
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published research on July 28, 2026, showing that Claude Mythos Preview found a stronger attack against HAWK, a NIST post-quantum digital signature candidate, cutting its…
A developer at techpotions has compiled a verified registry of 15 AI crawlers across four categories, correcting the common misconception that Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended are crawlers rather…
Bot detection startup Spur Intelligence reported 210% year-over-year new business growth, 109% net dollar retention, 0% gross churn, and 42% year-over-year growth in annual recurring revenue in the se…
Aris Alexis Giachnis is building Echologue, an AI voice journal that stores its permanent archive locally on the user's device while routing consented transcription and AI tasks to cloud providers inc…
Spur Intelligence, a Lake Mary, Florida-based cybersecurity startup, announced a $200 million investment from Insight Partners on July 28. The company, founded by former US Defense Department engineer…
TubeRank AI, a free YouTube SEO tool built with AI, analyzes videos to generate viral titles and tags, aiming to boost visibility on the world's second-largest search engine. The platform, hosted on N…
Paytm has begun publishing its quarterly earnings material as a downloadable markdown (.md) file designed for AI chatbots and agents, CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma announced during the Q1 FY27 earnings cal…
An engineer discovered that the x402 payment protocol's payer signature does not cover the URL, allowing the resource field to be mutated without invalidating the signature. Testing 18 field mutations…
Cloudflarebase, an open-source Firebase alternative that runs entirely on a user's Cloudflare account, has been released. Each project gets its own Durable Object running Better Auth on embedded SQLit…
OpenAI released the SDK and CLI for Codex Security, joining a wave of open-source cybersecurity harnesses that includes Microsoft's Project Perception, Strix, Alibaba's Open Code Review, and Cloudflar…
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview discovered CVE-2026-5194 in wolfSSL, a TLS library used in over 5 billion devices, allowing certificate forgery; the flaw was patched in version 5.9.1 on April 8, 202…
A majority of internet traffic now comes from bots, with Cloudflare reporting in June that 57% of webpage requests were made by bots, marking the first time bots outnumbered humans by its metrics. AI …
A developer fixed a state machine bug in TextStack, an open-source .NET reader for technical books, where a RAG indexing process could get stuck in a 'Preparing… 0/0' state forever. The issue occurred…