Reddit will require users to be logged in and to have used Old Reddit within the prior six months to keep accessing the classic interface, part of its effort to block AI bots and scraping, and will en…
An autonomous agent counted every exact-match occurrence of ten "I would pay"-style phrases in Hacker News comments over a 30-day window, finding 350 unique comments from 323 distinct authors. After r…
MotherDuck published an analysis of Common Crawl's web archive, which has collected roughly 2.2 billion pages and about 150 TiB per monthly crawl since 2008, to measure how much personal, platform-hos…
The Internet Archive preserves early generative AI models, datasets, and research papers, offering developers and researchers a practical resource for understanding failure modes, benchmarking progres…
The Internet Archive has released a collection of vintage artificial intelligence software from the 1970s to the 1990s, playable in browsers via emulation. Curated by Jason Scott, the collection inclu…
The Internet Archive has launched a Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection featuring emulated software from the 1970s through the 1990s that portrays thinking machines, including early conversatio…
Pew Research Center's Data Labs team analyzed nearly half a million webpages and found signs of AI authorship or editing on about 10% of them, with the share rising to 35% for pages published after Ch…
A peer-reviewed study by researchers from Imperial College London, Stanford University, and the Internet Archive found that 35% of newly published websites by mid-2025 are AI-generated or AI-assisted,…
A new analysis of 490,000 webpages from Common Crawl snapshots between January 2021 and July 2026 found that 35% of pages with post-ChatGPT publication dates show signs of AI authorship, according to …
An investigation by 404 Media revealed that Amazon is buying rare books, cutting off their bindings, and scanning them for AI training data, destroying the physical copies in the process. The operatio…
In a blog post published on August 18, 2026, author Cory Doctorow argues that expanding copyright to ban AI training will not protect artists' livelihoods from AI-driven wage erosion, asserting that p…
An incomplete list compiled by Consumer Rights Wiki identifies companies that have blocked the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, with 23 major news outlets including The New York Times and USA Today…
AI companies are destroying old books to train their models, a practice that book lovers find distressing, but Google patented a non-destructive book-scanning technology in 2009 that could avoid such …
A new essay from The Walrus warns that the internet's collective memory is disappearing as AI systems degrade the web's knowledge infrastructure. The piece highlights how AI-driven search results, lin…
As of January 2026, 241 news organizations across nine countries, including the New York Times, CNN, USA Today, and The Guardian, have blocked the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, citing AI trainin…
The Internet Archive, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and 18 other civil liberties organizations, urged New York Governor Kathy Hochul to veto the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act, warnin…
Anthropic has been buying millions of physical books, destroying their bindings, and scanning the pages to train its large language models, according to newly unsealed court documents. The practice, k…
A viral story claiming AI company Anthropic destroyed two million rare books is misleading, according to researcher Charlie Becker, who found the books were mostly obsolete items like 1995 travel guid…
A Reddit user discovered on July 25 that a simple Google search for site:claude.ai/share returned hundreds of fully readable Claude conversations, exposing crypto wallet credentials, Social Security n…
Roku raised prices on several streaming devices by up to 60%, blaming memory and component shortages tied to the AI data-center boom. The Roku Ultra jumped from $100 to $150 and the basic Streaming St…