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AI giants targeted by scraping bots — ChatGPT and Perplexity enter the most-scraped websites list for the first…

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AI platforms have become synonymous with scraping other sites for information, but it's not every day you hear of AI sites themselves becoming targets. The latest Decodo research has revealed just that, though, with ChatGPT and Perplexity both appearing in the top five.

Decodo argues this marks a fundamental shift in what organizations are now demanding from the web – "Two years ago, businesses scraped the web to see what people were searching for," CEO Vaidotas Juknys noted.

"Now they scrape AI platforms to see what people are being told. The use case for data collection is changing."

AI platforms like ChatGPT are now being scraped

Besides AI platforms, Decodo found that seven of the top 10 sites are actually...

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I've picked the 27 best gadget discounts in Currys' Epic Deals event — from TVs to coffee makers to…

Currys has launched its latest 'Epic Deals' event, beating the next Amazon Prime Day to the punch. I've looked through it, and it's a mixed bag — there are some really tempting discounts in there, but some areas (especially TV and audio) are very light.

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Dutch eyewear giant becomes first retailer to halt Meta Ray-ban sales — Hans Anders pulls smart glasses from 400 stores due to ‘questions being raised’ about the tech

* Eyewear retailer Hans Anders has stopped sales of Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses * The decision comes amid growing concerns over the public use of the tech * Dutch consumer rights group Consumentenbond has said it will take Meta to court if it fails to comply with the law The clampdown on privacy-threatening

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Namespace, which provides cloud services and infrastructure for developers, raised a $42M Series B led by Scale and says it has 1,000+ customers

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AI platforms like ChatGPT are now being scraped

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I've picked the 27 best gadget discounts in Currys' Epic Deals event &mdash; from TVs to coffee makers to…

Dutch eyewear giant becomes first retailer to halt Meta Ray-ban sales &mdash; Hans Anders pulls smart glasses from 400 stores due to &lsquo;questions being raised&rsquo; about the tech

Namespace, which provides cloud services and infrastructure for developers, raised a $42M Series B led by Scale and says it has 1,000+ customers

Are Phone Coolers Actually Worth It?

I've picked the 27 best gadget discounts in Currys' Epic Deals event — from TVs to coffee makers to…

Dutch eyewear giant becomes first retailer to halt Meta Ray-ban sales — Hans Anders pulls smart glasses from 400 stores due to ‘questions being raised’ about the tech