Anthropic destroying books to train Claude was ruled legal. Here is the rule that made it work, explained simply.

Apryse, the leading provider of document processing technology for developers and enterprises, today announced the acquisition of PDF Tools AG, a provider of high-performance PDF processing software ...

Data scraping startup Oxylabs UAB has broken into unicorn territory after raising $130 million in funding from the private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. The round is the first time the bootstrapped ...

Europe's top privacy body resolved one of the most contested legal questions in artificial intelligence on Tuesday, ruling that GDPR applies in full whenever web scraping involves EU residents' ...

The alleged campaign generated 28.8 million queries in a large-scale model-extraction effort to replicate AI capabilities. Anthropic has accused Alibaba of using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to ...

Should researchers still be posting their data openly online? It’s a question being debated by some researchers now that bots are routinely mining open-access databases and scientific publications to ...

You don’t need expensive software for basic PDF tasks. In fact, all you need is a handful of free web-based apps. Given the ubiquity and popularity of the PDF, it's no surprise that commercial PDF ...

AI companies have grown into data-hungry entities as their models require ever-larger datasets to train on. To meet that need, many AI startups defy long-standing internet conventions — like ...

Website scraping can seem complex, particularly for those without programming experience. Eliot Prince explains how to approach this task using Claude Cowork, a conversational AI platform, alongside ...

Amazon released the 5.19.2 update a couple of weeks ago, and one feature that flew under the radar concerned PDF files. In the past, the only way to annotate and edit PDF files was to use Send to ...

As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback ...

Google has filed a federal lawsuit against SerpApi, accusing the Texas firm of using “parasitic” methods to scrape and resell search results. Google alleges that SerpApi bypasses security walls like ...