The crawler, dubbed Bytespider, is scraping the internet at 3,000 times the rate of other gen AI tools like Anthropic.

Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month according to ...

Modern scraping APIs pair AI-generated parsers with layered browsing modes. Many APIs offer request, JS-rendered, anti-bot ...

Barracuda research reveals the extent of data scraping bots Not all bots are bad, but many extract huge amounts of data without permission These "gray bots" can be highly aggressive, report warns New ...

GUEST RESEARCH: Generative AI scraper bots target websites 24 hours a day with up to half a million requests for information, according to the latest Barracuda detection data. In a new report, ...

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