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…
A dataset containing roughly 200,000 pirated books from shadow libraries has been used to train generative AI models, raising legal and ethical concerns about copyright infringement. The unlicensed da…
AI companies are digitizing rare books to train large language models, but the aggressive scanning process is damaging the original physical artifacts, according to a report. The shift toward 'dark da…
LaunchRanks offers a free tool that measures a website's harmonic centrality and PageRank from Common Crawl data, providing a ready-made list of directories, communities, and launch sites to boost sit…
On July 22, 2026, a Rust-based tokenizer called GigaToken, built by Marcel Rød, hit the top of Hacker News with claims of being 989x faster than HuggingFace tokenizers, processing text at 24.53 GB/s o…
Canonry has released an open-source, self-hosted AI engine optimization (AEO) operating platform that tracks citations across Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and local LLMs, and includes tools fo…
GigaToken, a new open-source tokenizer, claims to be up to ~1000x faster than HuggingFace's tokenizers and tiktoken for language model tokenization, achieving speeds of over 24 GB/s on an AMD EPYC 956…
RuntimeWire launched a public MCP server on July 22nd, 2026, that gives AI agents unrestricted real-time access to its AI-economy news wire without requiring an API key or signup. The service streams …
Microsoft published a 109-page technical report on its MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model, detailing the entire training process from web scraping to final optimization. The report reveals that 54.6% of t…
Large language models exhibit brand bias because training data distribution determines which companies appear as defaults in AI responses. Brands that left deep textual footprints across high-quality …
AI crawlers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Common Crawl, and Perplexity are now common in server logs. A developer at AEO Checker explains how to audit robots.txt and CDN settings to avoid accidental…
A small Home Assistant blog received 18,209 AI crawler requests in nine days, accounting for 5.2% of total traffic. The majority came from ChatGPT-User (6,687 requests), which performs live fetches fo…
A new analysis of server logs for CitationIQ.com found that 81.8% of claimed AI assistant traffic was fake, with only 6 of 33 requests verified as legitimate. Googlebot spoofing was even worse, with j…
The Atlantic's investigation reveals that tech companies have used at least 15 million videos and millions of songs to train AI models, often without permission. The report highlights the industry's r…
Stanford researchers released the Stanford EDGAR Filings Dataset (SEFD), a 152 billion token reconstruction of SEC EDGAR filings from 1994 to present in a layout-faithful MultiMarkdown format, achievi…
Mozilla launched an AI tab grouping feature in Firefox in early 2025 that suggests group titles and tabs to add, running entirely locally on the user's device using a small T5-based model fine-tuned o…
Microsoft trained its new MAI models on unlicensed web data from sources like Common Crawl, contradicting its public promise to use only "clean and commercially licensed data." The company, like other…