Website scraping can seem complex, particularly for those without programming experience. Eliot Prince explains how to approach this task using Claude Cowork, a conversational AI platform, alongside ...

I think the strongest indicator of how normal using AI has become is the language we use as shorthand for it. It’s now extremely common for someone to say they asked “chat” for some piece of ...

Design: Eamonn Dalton/The Athletic; Photos: Carlos Rodrigues/Getty Images Anyone not plugged into football’s online discourse may have missed it, but the analytics community was rocked by a seismic ...

Over the years, Sports Reference’s FBref website has become an invaluable resource for soccer fans to examine stats. Those fans, however, will no longer be able to access the website’s advanced data, ...

Google is now suing US data scraping company Serpapi for using hundreds of millions of fake search queries to bypass Google’s protection system and illegally obtain copyrighted material from search ...

SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content. SerpApi says it can deliver Google search ...

The free internet encyclopedia is the seventh-most visited website in the world, and it wants to stay that way. Imad was a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. The Common Crawl Foundation is little known outside of Silicon Valley. For more ...

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...