A web crawler is an automated program that discovers and visits web pages by following links. Search engines use crawlers to build indexes, while AI applications may use them to collect permitted public information for retrieval, monitoring, or analysis. The crawler requests a page, extracts links and metadata, schedules new URLs, and avoids revisiting the same content unnecessarily. Responsible crawling follows robots directives, rate limits, copyright rules, access restrictions, and site terms. Dynamic pages, duplicate URLs, traps, and constantly changing content make large crawls difficult. Collected material also requires provenance, security screening, and quality checks before it is used to train or ground an AI system.
Jeff Bezos says AI could let families live on one income or work three days a week, but has offered no timetable or plan for sharing the gains.
Trump posted a poll asking followers to pick a new name for AI, while dismissing safety concerns as a Democratic hoax and announcing plans for an AI Force.
Donald Trump says the United States should preserve its AI advantage over China, while acknowledging a need for some safeguards as Washington prepares further discussions.
Anthropic’s economic scenarios explore how AI could raise U.S. output by 2030 while shifting income toward capital and putting pressure on knowledge workers.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Images 2.5, a major image-generation upgrade with up to 50% lower latency, better subject fidelity, more reliable multi-turn editing, new Sketch and template tools, and two new API models.
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, a new flagship model built around computer use, coding and long-running agentic work, with major gains in mathematics, science and professional tasks.
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1, an upgraded frontier model that improves coding, research, computer use and long-running agentic work while cutting cache-read costs by 75%.
Anthropic has reportedly signed a 20-year, $9.1 billion data center agreement with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of AI computing capacity at the bitcoin miner’s Rockdale campus in Texas.
Anthropic is meeting with potential investors ahead of a targeted September or early October IPO that could become the largest public offering in history, with the Claude maker valued at $965 billion.
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model built for local AI agents, coding, tool use, and multimodal tasks on a single consumer GPU or high-end Mac.