AI agents tripled web traffic in a month. Now sites are banning them
Amazon, Yelp, and Pizza Hut are blocking OpenAI's and Meta's new shopping agents, and a web optimized for bots could squeeze out the humans who built it.

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Amazon, Yelp, and Pizza Hut are blocking OpenAI's and Meta's new shopping agents, and a web optimized for bots could squeeze out the humans who built it.
The Claude maker's 5% share pledge, worth $48bn, is a bid to win over regulators and investors before its stock market listing.
Researcher Quentin Kaiser says Broadcom knew since 2018, but a partial fix left 1.56 million Belgian gateways exposed and likely many more worldwide.
The AI company is locking a slice of its value to social causes before a potential November IPO, with roughly 20% of shares now pledged to the public good.
The YouTube-native studio is expanding beyond platform revenue with a four-acre LA campus and partnerships with Disney and Fox. Here's what it means for media executives.
The chip giant's deal with Apollo, BlackRock, and KKR signals that capital markets, not engineering, now decide who builds AI.
A new quantum state challenges decades of theory and hints at 'super-Fermions,' with real stakes for quantum computing and materials science.
Costco's CEO skipped the MBA and climbed from the warehouse floor to the top, and his father's advice explains why the best leaders often come from inside.
A study of 100-plus European pollen records shows human abandonment of medieval farmland cut plant diversity by 40%, then restoration came from renewed human activity.
The anchor tenant's exit leaves Nscale's flagship Essex project in doubt and signals how grid constraints are reshaping AI infrastructure deals.
Woodside's Scarborough gas project is frozen mid-start-up after activists boarded the platform, a disruption with cost and reputational ripple effects for LNG operators.
Austrian MEP Lena Schilling found deepfaked nudes of herself online and is demanding EU action as a new report quantifies the scale.