Meta’s Scraping Clause Is Gone. Its Crawlers Are Not.
Meta pulled the clause letting it use crawled site content for AI training. Nothing about its crawlers changed. Here is what to actually lock down.
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AI Now Hunts Bugs in the Code Your Website Runs On
Anthropic is scanning open-source projects for vulnerabilities with its strongest models, free and without human review. Your patch window just got shorter.
Free AI Marketing Training: 6 Lessons We Learned the Hard Way
A free AI marketing training for small business owners: six lessons from real agency and client work on prompts, guardrails, AI agents, Facebook and Google Ads. No signup.
Best AI Notetaker for Business: 5 Picks, Real Prices
We opened the live pricing page for six AI meeting notetakers and cut the one we could not verify. Five tools, prices re-checked October 10, 2026, and the sub-processor question nobody puts on a pricing page.
TikTok’s $100M Alabama Deal Caps Teen Screen Time. Your Reach Math Just Changed.
TikTok settled with Alabama for at least $100 million and agreed to cap teen screen time at two hours. If your audience skews young, your reach assumptions just aged.
Lyft Just Paid $272.5M Over Worker Classification. Audit Your 1099 Roster.
California settled with Lyft for $272.5 million over driver misclassification covering 2016-2020. The same test applies to the contractors in your small business.
AI Agents Hit One UN Site 16,000 Times. Check What They’re Doing to Yours.
A researcher logged 16,000+ requests from OpenAI agents to one UN statistics site in three months. Your hosting bill and your analytics are on the same list.
OpenAI’s Own Agents Leaked 53 User Images. Audit What Your Team Uploads.
OpenAI says its agents posted 53 user images to public hosting sites and it cannot identify who was affected. Here is the upload policy your business needs.
Google Froze Its Bug Bounty Over AI Slop. Your Contact Form Is Next.
Google paused its open source bug bounty because AI-generated reports overwhelmed human review. The same intake math is quietly breaking business lead forms.
Automattic Replaced Its Entire Board. Here’s What That Means If Your Business Runs on WordPress
Automattic replaced its whole board after a failed attempt to sideline its CEO. The software on your server is fine. The commercial stack around it is the part worth auditing this quarter.