World's largest-known spider's web reveals different species "having a party" instead of preying on each other

The behavior, which had never been observed before, stunned scientists as, typically, the larger house spider would prey on ...
Global Investigative Journalism Network

How Non-Coding Journalists Can Build Web Scrapers With AI — Examples and Prompts Included

It helps journalists verify hypotheses, reveal hidden insights, follow the money, scale investigations, and add credibility to stories. The Pulitzer Center’s Data and Research team has supported major ...
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Little Village leaders urge mayor to do more to stop ICE from using city property

Community leaders in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood are calling on Mayor Brandon Johnson to do more to enforce his executive order barring federal agents from using city-owned property for ...
Pulitzer Center

How Journalists Can Use Scraping Tools for Environmental Stories

Much of today’s most valuable environmental information is locked inside inaccessible websites and fragmented datasets. Web scraping empowers journalists to extract, organize, and analyze information ...
Entrepreneur

Your SEO Strategy Is Dying — Do This Now or Get Buried in AI Results

AI is rapidly transforming how people discover companies, demanding a new approach to search visibility. Traditional SEO alone is no longer enough — brands must adapt or risk disappearing from ...
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Google's new Gemini AI can actually use the web like you do

Google's latest AI experiment might just make your browser feel like it's haunted, in a good way. The company has unveiled Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, a new model that can actually use a web browser like ...
Bleeping Computer

LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...
ZDNet

AI's free web scraping days may be over, thanks to this new licensing protocol

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Report: ChatGPT Using SerpApi To Scrape Google Search Results

Earlier we reported that ChatGPT from OpenAI seems to be using parts of Google search results for its answers (kudos to the SEO community for spotting it first). Well, according to The Information, ...
ZDNet

How web scraping actually works - and why AI changes everything

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...
SiliconANGLE

Reddit sues Anthropic over alleged scraping and commercial use of user data

Reddit Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic PBC that accuses the artificial intelligence startup of unauthorized scraping and commercial use of Reddit user data to train its Claude family of AI ...