In today’s digest we cover Google suing SerpApi over its web scraping activity, ByteDance boosting benefits for staff to attract and retain top AI talent around the globe, plus Facebook carrying out a ...

Google alleges SerpApi is a “parasitic” enterprise. SerpApi maintains its services are protected by the First Amendment and principles of fair use. A Texas-based web-scraping company faces legal ...

Google sued SerpApi under the DMCA, alleging it circumvented SearchGuard to scrape and resell licensed copyrighted content from Google Search results at scale. Google claims SerpApi built tools ...

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions of fake Google search requests ...

Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: ...

Google cracked down on web scrapers that harvest search results data, triggering global outages at many popular rank tracking tools like Semrush that depend on providing fresh data from search results ...

It's becoming harder and harder to know what the rules are when it comes to generative AI. With Meta, X, and even the UK government behind opt-out models, it feels like AI is in a "steal first, ask ...

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

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Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an “industrial-scale, unlawful” economy to ...

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 ...