Meta’s Oct. 30 Business Terms Let It Crawl Your Website. Read the Clause
Meta's March 2024 Commercial Terms said nothing about crawling. The Oct. 30 version authorizes scrapers and test credentials on sites tied to…
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How the internet actually behaves: communities, platforms and the new AI-native spaces where people talk, work and hang out. We cover the shifts before they become the default.
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Facebook Your Algorithm: How to Tell Your Feed What You Want to See
Meta's Oct. 13 update lets you type the topics you want in Feed and Reels, and says ranking adjusts in the same…
The Telltale Signs of AI Writing, According to Wikipedia’s Editors
Wikipedia's AI Cleanup volunteers wrote the field guide everyone now cites. Here are the habits it flags, with examples, and why none…
Ben Affleck Calls AI Job Fears ‘Propaganda.’ He Sold an AI Firm to Netflix
Affleck told Bloomberg AI is "another form of computing" and says films using it employ more people. He founded InterPositive, which Netflix…
The Hotel Lobby AI Trend, Explained, and the Takeoff Problem
AI edits of Quavo and Takeoff's 2022 COLORS performance swap in Taylor Swift, the Obamas and cats. Quavo answered with a "No…
Washington Says ‘SI’ Now. The Law It Points To Still Says AI.
Trump's Sept. 29 order defines Super Intelligence as exactly what federal law calls artificial intelligence. Two days later, prosecutors used it in…
Is This Image AI? 7 Checks That Work, and 3 That Don’t
Free AI detectors called real news photos fake 13 percent of the time in a NewsGuard audit. Here is what to use…
Ando Raised $20M to Give AI Agents a Seat in the Chat. The Hard Part Is What Happens Next.
A Thiel Fellow's startup wants to replace Slack with a workspace where AI agents get their own identity, inbox and voice. The…