AI Bots Are Strip-Mining the Web, and Anthropic Leads the Pack

AI Bots Are Strip-Mining the Web, and Anthropic Leads the Pack

Cloudflare’s latest data offers one of the clearest snapshots yet of how AI companies consume the web, and how little they give back. Loading audio narration… The company, which powers roughly 20% of the internet, tracks how AI bots crawl websites versus how often those platforms send users back through referrals. The resulting “crawl-to-refer” ratio…

Over 70 per cent of Japan highschoolers use AI, mostly as study assistant: survey

Over 70 per cent of Japan highschoolers use AI, mostly as study assistant: survey

TOKYO: (Bernama-Kyodo) A total of 73.7 per cent of Japanese high school students are using conversational artificial intelligence (AI), with the most common purpose being to serve as a study assistant and collect information, a survey showed. According to the Gakken Research Institute for Learning and Education survey, 36.6 per cent of elementary school students…

What AI Fatigue? Anthropic’s Red-Hot Growth Is Going to Supercharge These 3 AI Leaders.

What AI Fatigue? Anthropic’s Red-Hot Growth Is Going to Supercharge These 3 AI Leaders.

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic’s Claude family of large language models (LLMs) is proving highly successful, as evidenced by its latest reported financial results. Anthropic calls itself an AI safety and research company, offering solutions such as AI agents, coding, AI-based customer support, advanced reasoning, and more, while keeping ethics and safety at the center…

This AI weather model helped predict 2025’s huge hurricanes

This AI weather model helped predict 2025’s huge hurricanes

Experts with the NHC recently released their seasonal forecast verification, objectively measuring their intensity and track forecasts against how each tropical storm and hurricane actually unfolded. They made an impressive discovery. Across the Atlantic basin, the agency says that the GDMI “slightly outperformed” the NHC’s track forecasts between 12 and 72 hours, and that the…

How language teachers are navigating AI with nuance

How language teachers are navigating AI with nuance

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A pervasive narrative has taken hold in education: generative AI (genAI) is an unstoppable force, and educators must adapt or be left behind. Technology companies market AI tools as the ultimate classroom assistants, while popular media warns that essay writing is dead. Teachers have long been labeled or framed by technology…

New Tools Aim to Make AI ‘Vibe Coding’ Safer for Crypto

New Tools Aim to Make AI ‘Vibe Coding’ Safer for Crypto

In brief ASI Alliance and Matterhorn said they are building tools to reduce risks from AI-generated blockchain code. The platform combines automated analysis, human review, and testing tools to audit smart contracts before deployment. The partnership runs on ASI:Chain and aims to onboard 20,000 developers in 2026. Artificial intelligence is starting to write the code…

‘It has your name on it, but I don’t think it’s you’: how AI is impersonating musicians on Spotify | AI (artificial intelligence)

‘It has your name on it, but I don’t think it’s you’: how AI is impersonating musicians on Spotify | AI (artificial intelligence)

Jason Moran, a renowned jazz composer and pianist, got a strange call from a friend last month. The friend, bassist Burniss Earl Travis, was curious about Moran’s new record that he saw on the music streaming service Spotify. “It has your name on it,” Travis told him. “But I don’t think it’s you.” Moran said…

Illia Polosukhin on AI Agents and Why They Still Need Human Oversight

Illia Polosukhin on AI Agents and Why They Still Need Human Oversight

On a given day, Illia Polosukhin has a dozen agents completing different “missions” for him. Loading audio narration… One such mission could be “I want to become a better CEO,” he said. “So it effectively summarizes all of the meeting notes, Google Drive docs, Slack messages, and provides me with a coaching and executive summary…