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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.
Anthropic is scanning open-source projects for vulnerabilities with its strongest models, free and without human review. Your patch window just got shorter.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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 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 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.