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When a Bloomberg story or any major news site returns the terse instruction “Please make sure your browser supports JavaScript and cookies…” instead of the article you expected, that short line is doing far more work than it appears to be doing: it’s the visible tip of a multilayered defensive...

AI-powered browsers that act like human users are forcing a swift and uncomfortable reckoning for publishers: a Columbia Journalism Review investigation found that agentic browsers such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet can, in some cases, access and reproduce content behind...

AI-powered “browsers” that act like users are quietly undermining the assumptions behind paywalls, crawler blocks, and long-standing publisher defenses — and the result is a fast-moving collision between technology, law, and the business of journalism. Background AI browsers are a new class of...

Major cloud service providers—including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Naver Cloud Platform—are now at the center of South Korea's rapidly shifting privacy landscape. In response to a decisive call from the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), these cloud giants...