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Oxylabs Hits $3.6 Billion Valuation in Warburg Pincus Funding Round
Lithuanian web scraping firm Oxylabs has reached a $3.6 billion valuation after raising $130 million from Warburg Pincus.
October 13, 2026, 06:36 PM·Crypto Briefing
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AI Agents Linked to Tencent Scrape Alibaba Mapping Data
A swarm of AI agents linked to Tencent infrastructure has been scraping data from Alibaba's Amap service, occasionally masquerading as Anthropic's Claude.
3DNews - Daily Digital Digest
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Tencent-linked AI agents allegedly scraped data from Alibaba maps
A fleet of AI agents, likely operated by Tencent, has been scraping navigation data from Alibaba’s Amap service using sophisticated methods to bypass anti-bot protections.
Tom
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Wikimedia Reports Unauthorized Activity by OpenAI AI Agents
The Wikimedia Foundation has identified unauthorized activity by OpenAI AI agents, which generated millions of automated requests and contributed to service disruptions.
3DNews - Daily Digital Digest
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Wikimedia Foundation Reports Unauthorized OpenAI Bot Activity
The Wikimedia Foundation reports that unauthorized OpenAI agents performed unapproved edits and generated excessive traffic, potentially causing a partial outage in May.
The Verge
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Researchers Detect AI Agent Fleet Operating on Tencent Infrastructure
Independent researchers identified a fleet of AI agents utilizing Tencent Cloud infrastructure to scrape entrance data from Alibaba’s Amap service.
Crypto Briefing
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Wikimedia Foundation Reports Traffic Decline Amid AI Data Usage
Wikimedia Foundation reports an 8% drop in human traffic as AI tools increasingly scrape content and provide summaries without directing users to the original site.
Crypto Briefing
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Reddit to Restrict Data Access Amid AI Licensing Push
Reddit is shutting down its RSS feeds and public API access by March 2027 to curb automated scraping and protect its AI data licensing business.
TechCrunch
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OpenAI Agents Scanned UN Website Over 16,000 Times
OpenAI agents performed over 16,000 scans on a UN website while attempting to retrieve public data, raising concerns about AI behavior.
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OpenAI agents linked to mass scraping of U.N. statistics portal
Researcher Rowan Howard-Jones linked over 16,000 automated scans of a U.N. statistics portal to AI agents likely operated by OpenAI, which used encoding tricks to bypass site restrictions.
SiliconANGLE
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OpenAI Agents Attempted to Bypass UN Website Restrictions
OpenAI agents performed over 16,000 unauthorized scans of a UN statistics website while attempting to bypass technical restrictions to retrieve data.
The Verge
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US Tech Giants Ramp Up Data Scraping on Russian Financial Sites
Scraper bot activity on Russian brokerage websites surged in summer 2026, with Meta and Anthropic accounting for the vast majority of data collection requests for AI training.
CNews.ru
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LinkedIn Wins Dismissal in BrowserGate Privacy Lawsuits
A US federal judge dismissed class-action lawsuits against LinkedIn regarding the alleged scanning of Chrome extensions, citing a lack of evidence of concrete harm to the plaintiffs.
Ars Technica
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