Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.
A growing number of companies are launching AI agents that can do things on your behalf—actions like sending an email, making a document, or editing a database. Initial reviews for
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AI coding requires a serious structural change. Where does that leave entry-level developers and the software industry as a whole?Read More
GUEST: The past few decades have seen almost unimaginable advances in compute performance and efficiency, enabled by Moore’s Law and underpinned by scale-out commodity hardware and loosely coupled software. This
Cohere’s Command A Vision can read graphs and PDFs to make enterprise research richer and analyze the documents businesses actually rely on.Read More
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A new study from Anthropic suggests that traits such as sycophancy or evilness are associated with specific patterns of activity in large language models—and turning on those patterns during training
The Gemini 2.5 Deep Think released to users is not that same competition model, rather, a lower performing but apparently faster version.Read More
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