For agent-based web browsing to work, agents will need to have the same kind of access to the web that humans do. The problem, as I’ve articulated before, is that agents aren’t humans.

Perplexity says AI tools are different from traditional web searches, while Cloudflare points to obfuscation in forcing access to data even when websites say not to ...

In this article, authors discuss Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard designed to connect AI agents with tools and data they need. They also talk about how MCP empowers agent development, ...

While bots and crawlers have been part of the internet for years, AI-powered autonomous agents are a relatively new development. These agents - ranging from LLM crawlers to more sophisticated ...

According to Cloudflare’s report, Perplexity’s bots masked their identity, altered user agents to impersonate browsers like Google Chrome, and rotated IP addresses to evade detection.

As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: ...

AI's appetite for scraped content, without returning readers, is leaving site owners and content creators fighting for survival.

Perplexity accused of dodgy scrapingResearchers from the company said they observed Perplexity using multiple user agents, including one impersonating Google Chrome on macOS, as well as rotating ...

Should AI-powered web crawlers be categorised as user-driven tools or malicious bots? Dive in to find the answer.

Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again The company's bots appear to be 'stealth crawling' sites that have them blocked.

Reddit recently learned AI firms were using the Wayback Machine to scrape user data and will now limit its access to just the homepage.