Reddit is cracking down on AI bots profiting off its data without a licensing agreement.
Reddit’s upcoming changes attempt to safeguard the platform against AI crawlers
Reddit announced on Tuesday that it’s updating its Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt file), which tells automated web bots whether they are permitted to crawl a site. Historically, robots.txt […]
Daydream rakes in $50M seed funding to build an AI-powered search engine suited for e-commerce
For retailers, e-commerce is a bit of a puzzle at the moment. Online shopping trends are expected to stay strong this year, so companies can’t afford to curtail […]
Genspark is the latest attempt at an AI-powered search engine
Move over, Perplexity. There’s a new AI-powered search engine in town — and its creators think it can best the many, many other attempts out there. Called Genspark, […]
CuspAI raises $30M to create a Gen-AI-driven search engine for new materials
The modern method of coming up with new materials is to make something and then use a computer to work out whether the material came out correctly. But […]
Perplexity now displays results for temperature, currency conversion and simple math, so you don’t have to use Google
Amid ongoing controversy about handling of media articles and original reporting, AI-powered search startup Perplexity now displays results for factual queries such as weather and time at a […]
Best free VPN in 2024
Mashable’s guide to the best free VPNs spotlights free subscription tiers and trials from premium providers, including TunnelBear, CyberGhost VPN, and ExpressVPN.
How a couple of former Pinterest search experts caught Biz Stone’s attention
Lance Riedel and Nigel Daley both spent decades in search discovery, but it was while working at Pinterest, to launch Pinterest Shopping, that they began to understand how […]
Best VPN for iPhone, tested and reviewed
Here’s a guide to the best VPN for iPhone based on our research and hands-on testing.
Bing’s API is down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s web search feature down too
Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, isn’t working properly right now. At first, we noticed it wasn’t possible to perform a web search at all. Now it seems search results […]