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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relying on websites using robots.txt alone to actively block unauthorized AI training.

TechCrunch AI 1 week ago
AI Research

Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

DeepMind Blog 1 week ago
AI Applications

Apple’s lawsuit couldn’t come at a worse time for OpenAI

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully hedged, and the timing couldn’t be worse with the company reportedly eyeing an IPO […]

TechCrunch AI 1 week ago
LLM Company

A scorecard for the AI age

Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenaAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.

OpenAI Blog 1 week ago
AI Research

The risk of weather data sabotage is rising

Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast. While these forecasts are something that most people glance at for two seconds, weather predictions influence major strategic decisions in many industries, with real money, livelihoods, and even actual lives at stake. Farmers use…

MIT Technology Review AI 1 week ago