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Claude’s mobile app is seeing a surge in downloads and daily active users, overtaking ChatGPT in U.S. installs after Anthropic’s refusal to let the Pentagon use its AI for surveillance or autonomous weapons. App intelligence data shows Claude’s daily downloads at 149,000, with 11.3 million daily active users, a 183% increase from the start of the year. Web traffic rose 43% month‑over‑month and 297.7% year‑over‑year, while ChatGPT’s traffic slipped. The app now holds the No. 1 spot in the U.S. App Store and ranks first in 15 other countries. Ler mais

New data shows AI bots are rapidly increasing their share of internet traffic, often bypassing standard safeguards like robots.txt. Publishers and website owners are confronting a sophisticated arms race as bots disguise themselves as human browsers and employ advanced scraping techniques. Companies such as TollBit, Cloudflare and others are offering tools to detect, block, or monetize bot access, while a growing market promotes services that help content appear in AI-driven search results. The shift is reshaping how the web functions and creating new revenue streams for digital publishers. Ler mais

Google is rolling out its AI Mode chatbot in Search to dozens of new regions and dozens of additional languages. The expansion follows an early‑March test in the Labs program and a May rollout to all U.S. users. New language support includes Arabic, Chinese, several European languages, Malay, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese and more, with further additions such as Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese announced in early September. Google says its custom Gemini model enables nuanced, multimodal understanding across languages, while publishers warn the AI summaries may be reducing web traffic. Ler mais

Google announced that its AI Mode chatbot, integrated into Search, is now available in Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese. The expansion follows a rapid rollout that began with an English‑only version, later opened to the United States, the United Kingdom and India, and now reaches users in more than 180 countries. The update leverages Google’s custom Gemini 2.5 Pro model and adds deeper multimodal and reasoning capabilities. While the company claims the web remains stable, a recent court filing acknowledges a rapid decline in open‑web traffic, a development publishers hope the multilingual AI features may help mitigate. Ler mais