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Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders

Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites' no-crawl directives.…

OpenAI's ChatGPT is on track to hit 700 million weekly active users, "up from 500 million in March, marking a more than fourfold year-over-year surge in growth," reports CNBC. From the report: The figure spans all ChatGPT artificial intelligence products -- free, Plus Pro, Enterprise, Team, and Edu -- and comes as daily user messages surpassed three billion, according to the company. The growth rate is also accelerating, compared with 2.5 times year-over-year growth at this time last year. "Every day, people and teams are learning, creating, and solving harder problems," said Nick Turley, VP of product for ChatGPT, in announcing the benchmark. OpenAI now has five million paying business users on ChatGPT, up from three million in June, as enterprises and educators increasingly integrate AI tools. [...] OpenAI's annual recurring revenue is now at $13 billion, up from $10 billion in June, with the company on track to surpass $20 billion by year-end. Even at a $300 billion valuation and $20 billion revenue run rate, OpenAI will need massive capital to support its global push.

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Scots Formula One star David Coulthard has revealed he saw bulimia as a 'necessary evil' as a young driver.

The former Saturdays singer, 36, took to social media to share an array of snaps from her recent trip to to the Balearic party island.

A five-year old boy has been rushed to hospital after allegedly falling from a height in Dagenham this afternoon. It is understood the child has not sustained life-threatening injuries. 

Candace Owens explained to journalist Tucker Carlson that President Donald Trump personally called her to ask her to stop pursuing a story about France's first lady Brigitte Macron.

Hudley Owen Hamlett was found unresponsive on Thursday after his legal guardian, Brian Dalton, left him in a hot car while he went to work in Virginia , officials said.

An investigation by the American Cancer Society (ACS) found that after a stable 15-year trend, diagnoses of local-stage colorectal cancer (CRC) rose steeply in adults aged 45 to 49 years old.

Experts are warning against mixing these five things with your morning coffee.

Today marks former President Barack Obama's 64th birthday. And as the birthday wishes roll in from countless celebs, one particular voice seems to be missing: Michelle Obama.

One new military branch per term would have to be some sort of record

The US Space Force won't be the only new military branch Donald Trump has created if forthcoming recommendations from a group of retired military and civilian leadership end up being adopted. They want the President to form a US "Cyber Force" too. …

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Patrick Schlott often finds himself in a cellular dead zone during his drive to work. "You go down the road, you turn the corner and you're behind a mountain and you'll lose cell coverage pretty fast," he says. The 31-year-old electrical engineer says poor reception is a common frustration for residents of Vermont's Orange County. To address this issue, he's providing his community with a new way to stay connected. Schlott has taken old pay phones, modified them to make free calls, and set them up in three different towns across the county. He buys the phones secondhand from sites like eBay and Craigslist and restores them in his home workshop. With just an internet connection, these phones can make calls anywhere in the U.S. or Canada -- no coins required. And Schlott covers all the operating costs himself. "It's cheap enough where I'm happy just footing the bill," he says. "You know, if I'm spending $20 a month on, say, Netflix, I could do that and provide phone service for the community. And to me, that's way more fun." Hundreds of calls have been made since the first phone was installed back in March last year. "I knew there would be some fringe cases where it would be really helpful," says Schlott. "But I never expected it to get daily use and for people to be this excited about it." "One of the cornerstones that I want to stick to is, no matter what happens on the backend, the calls will always be free," he says. "And I will figure out a way to make that happen."

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Harris County Precinct 5 constable deputy Jennifer Escalera is under investigation for posting a TikTok vowing to issue tickets after she failed to have sex the night before.

Nightlife in Chelmsford has been described as 'going through a shift'

An Orlando woman experienced a serious infection after receiving a chin fat reduction procedure by someone not licensed to practice medicine.

Kelly Osbourne shared a heartbreaking message with fans on Instagram on Monday as she thanked them for their support following her dad Ozzy's death on July 22.

The beloved radio presenter was first diagnosed in 2000, and doctors predicted he had three months to live before he underwent surgery to remove one of his kidneys.

Fermi America will also have 4GW of gas generators for the Amarillo 'HyperGrid'

Nuclear power is enjoying something of a second renaissance in the US as hyperscalers grapple with AI's seemingly insatiable appetite for power.…

The US President labelled the British car maker's recent advert, which featured brightly dressed models, as a 'total disaster' and 'stupid'.

Plastics are a "grave, growing and under-recognised danger" to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. From a report: The world is in a "plastics crisis," it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at least $1.5 trillion a year in health-related damages. The driver of the crisis is a huge acceleration of plastic production, which has increased by more than 200 times since 1950 and is set to almost triple again to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060. [...] Plastic pollution has also soared, with 8 billion tonnes now polluting the entire planet, the review said, from the top of Mount Everest to the deepest ocean trench. Less than 10% of plastic is recycled.

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