Wikipedia has been struggling with the impact that AI crawlers — bots that are scraping text and multimedia from the encyclopedia to train generative artificial intelligence models — have been having ...

“Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade artificial intelligence developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that’s specifically optimized for training AI models. The Wikimedia Foundation ...

IT service management company Cloudflare is striking back on behalf of content creators, blocking AI scrapers by default. Web scrapers are bots that crawl the internet, collecting and cataloguing ...

Too much of a good thing can be bad, and that is what is happening over at Bluesky which is now facing criticisms because of its renowned 'open API' called Firehouse, as almost anyone can take data ...

Information is the new oil, and fast data extraction sets leaders apart. As web data grows rapidly, practical tools are needed to extract this information. Traditional web scraping methods often ...

Databricks Inc. has acquired Lilac AI Inc., a startup with a tool that helps developers manage the text datasets they use in artificial intelligence projects. The companies announced the deal today ...

Data is the cornerstone of enterprise AI success, yet enterprise AI initiatives often hit an unexpected infrastructure wall: getting clean, reliable data from the web. For the last two decades, web ...