Hosts: James & Maya In this episode: • Hi, I'm Maya, and today we start with a number that should worry anyone running a website. AI bots now make up 80 percent of global web traffic. • And here's why this matters. Site owners are paying to serve those bots. Many report their operating costs have doubled, with almost nothing coming ba... • Worth noting the caveats. AI companies crawl content to train models, but publishers get no payment and no search benefit. The cost quietly lands on t... • So owners are pushing back. Some block unknown crawlers. Others put up paid access walls. Watch how aggressively they defend their margins over the ne... • Story two. Anthropic is now building finished software, not just selling models. They've shipped 13 tools, starting with Claude Code last year and now... Subscribe to the newsletter at pivotnews.ai for the full written briefing.
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