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Cloudflare announced new bot controls and a research program to help website owners manage AI crawlers and be compensated for content used by AI search engines, citing a 2025 Pew study showing AI summaries reduce traditi…
Cloudflare announced new AI traffic controls for all customers, allowing website owners to manage bot access based on use cases: search, agent, and training. The company introduced a taxonomy to classify crawler behavior…
TikTok is expanding its search features with Local Feed, AI summaries, and shopping tools, making it a key platform for business discovery. Nearly half of U.S. consumers used TikTok as a search engine in 2026, according …
Cloudflare announced new tools, analytics, and partnerships to help site owners control AI access to their content, aiming to foster a collaborative agentic economy. The company will test new default classifications and …
Intel's new ASUS NUC 16 Pro mini PCs, tested in a cluster of three, failed to speed up large language model inference, with token generation dropping to half the single-machine rate due to memory bandwidth limitations. T…
Cloudflare has introduced the Agentic Internet, a framework requiring AI systems to pay for the content they consume. The move aims to establish new standards for content compensation in the AI era, with implications for…
Cloudflare announced it will default to blocking mixed-use crawlers from accessing ad-supported customer websites, citing broken crawl-for-traffic bargains with AI companies. The move affects roughly 20 percent of the we…
Cloudflare announced the Monetization Gateway, enabling customers to charge for any asset protected by Cloudflare—web pages, datasets, APIs, or MCP tools—using stablecoin micropayments via the x402 protocol. The gateway …
Apptronik unveiled Apollo 2, a humanoid robot designed for real-world industrial tasks, alongside the opening of its expanded Robot Park in Austin, Texas. The robot, available in bipedal and wheeled versions, collects op…
Meta Platforms is building a cloud business to sell excess AI computing capacity, according to a Bloomberg News report. Shares of the company rose over 6% in premarket trading following the news.
An independent evaluator, known only as P, was brought in to assess two AI monitoring platforms, MonitorAI and SentryWave, during a proof-of-concept at industrial IoT firm FirmCore. Instead of asking technical questions …
A United Nations report titled 'Governing AI for Humanity' highlights both the transformative potential and significant risks of artificial intelligence, calling for a global governance framework. The report's emphasis o…
A Hacker News user asks the community for advice on moving from cloud-based AI services to private models for sensitive data analysis and reasoning, considering options like adding dual RTX 5090 GPUs or leasing compute.
Wagtail developer Thibaud Colas published a guide comparing open weight AI models and inference providers, emphasizing transparency and decoupled infrastructure as key advantages. The post outlines criteria for selecting…
Canada's federal banking reforms enable credit unions to expand nationally, leveraging AI, data strategy, and digital modernization to compete with traditional banks. The reforms present an opportunity for credit unions …
Cisco Systems is deploying AI agents to all 90,000 employees starting in its new fiscal year, providing personalized assistants that handle tasks and route requests to the most efficient AI model. The company is building…
BNB Chain launched BNB Agent Studio, a platform built with AWS that lets developers create autonomous AI agents in about 15 minutes from a text prompt. The platform integrates identity, payments, hosting and AI capabilit…
A developer building RAG systems in production faces a dilemma between caching answers for efficiency and serving stale data when source documents change. The standard TTL-based cache invalidation is ineffective because …
A developer at a fashion-discovery startup reduced image generation costs by 90x by switching from Google's Gemini API to running Alibaba's open-source Qwen-Image-Edit model on an RTX 4090 GPU, leveraging FP8 tensor core…
BaseCompute released BaseRT, a fast inference runtime for local AI on Apple Silicon, claiming up to 35% faster decode and 78% faster prefill on an Apple M4 Pro with 4-bit quantization. The runtime allows users to serve m…