
The $18 billion AI search startup allegedly disguised its bots to scrape content from sites that banned it, prompting Cloudflare to kick it out of its verified bot program and roll out new anti-scraping defenses.

The firm was ordered to respond to allegations that its AI expert cited a non-existent academic source as part of a $75M copyright suit.
Recently, an OpenAI employee publicly criticized Elon Musk's xAI company, saying that the benchmark results of its latest AI model Grok3 were misleading. In response, xAI co-founder Igor Babushkin insisted that the company was not improper. The xAI chart shows that two versions of Grok3 - Grok3 Reasoning Beta and Grok3 mini Reasoning - outperformed OpenAI's current strongest available model, o3-mini-high, at AIME 2025. However, OpenAI employees soon...
Israel blamed Palestinian militants for the Tel Aviv bombing, and the Israeli military has since stepped up its operations in the West Bank. Click to view...
Four years after former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers accused US fiscal and monetary policymakers of over-stimulating and potentially triggering the biggest inflation blowout in a generation, he warned of the danger of renewed price pressures. "This is probably the most sensitive moment for inflation escalation since the policy missteps of 2021 triggered severe inflation," Mr. Summers said. "This is a moment where we have to be very careful about inflation, even before you see the polic...
The Democratic Party, South Korea's largest opposition party, accused President Yoon Seok-yeok of "allegedly inciting civil unrest".
On November 16th, comprehensive foreign media reported that the prospects of final confirmation of two of Trump's most controversial cabinet nominees may be in jeopardy due to sexual misconduct allegations. Concerns about Trump's nominee for defense secretary, Hegseth's inexperience and extreme views, have complicated his path to Senate confirmation after it emerged that California police investigated sexual assault allegations against him in 2017, but no charges were filed. But this shocked sev...
Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal has accused the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) of taking covert actions to crack down on the crypto industry. Grewal claims that documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act revealed a series of so-called suspension letters. In these letters, the FDIC is said to have instructed banks to delay or stop providing services to crypto companies. He described the letters as "an attempt by U.S. government entities to cut off law-abiding...
The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused advisor WisdomTree of failing to comply with its own ESG market fund investment standards.
Two young men accused of masterminding one of the biggest cryptocurrency thefts in US history went on a spending spree after stealing $230 million worth of bitcoins, but now a judge has found that at least $100 million of the stolen bitcoins are missing. Authorities believe the cryptocurrency theft may be linked to another crime.