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The Download: tripping with AI, and blocking crawler bots
This is todays edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whats going on in the world of technology. People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics A growing number of people are using AI chatbots as “trip sitters”—a phrase that traditionally refers to a sober person.
Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients’ websites
The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced today that it will now default to blocking AI bots from visiting websites it hosts. Cloudflare will also give clients the ability to manually allow or ban these AI bots on a case-by-case basis, and it will introduce a so-called “pay-per-crawl” service that clients can use to receive compensation.
People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics
Peter sat alone in his bedroom as the first waves of euphoria coursed through his body like an electrical current. He was in darkness, save for the soft blue light of the screen glowing from his lap.
What comes next for AI copyright lawsuits?
Last week, the technology companies Anthropic and Meta each won landmark victories in two separate court cases that examined whether or not the firms had violated copyright when they trained their large language models on copyrighted books without permission. The rulings are the first we’ve seen to come out of copyright cases of this kind.
Kayak and Expedia race to build AI travel agents that turn social posts into itineraries
Planning a trip may soon be more agentic as companies like Kayak and Expedia reimagine the travel agent as an AI agent.
From chatbots to collaborators: How AI agents are reshaping enterprise work
Anthropic's Scott White explains how AI agents evolved from chatbots to autonomous workers at VentureBeat Transform 2025, cutting enterprise tasks from weeks to minutes.
AI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from genome editing
Bioethics and law expert R. Alta Charo explores the value of regulating technologies at the application level and the role of coordinated oversight in genome editing, while Microsoft GM Daniel Kluttz reflects on Charo’s points, drawing parallels to AI governance.
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