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Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks — New data from Similarweb reveals massive spikes in traffic and app downloads, while the user base expands to include older generations.
CEO Matthew Prince says Cloudflare has blocked 416B AI bot requests for its customers since July 1, and that Google can see 3.2x more internet pages than OpenAI (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
CEO Matthew Prince says Cloudflare has blocked 416B AI bot requests for its customers since July 1, and that Google can see 3.2x more internet pages than OpenAI — Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims the internet infrastructure company's efforts to block AI crawlers are already seeing big results.
A review of LinkedIn profiles shows dozens of Apple staffers with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics, and more have joined OpenAI in recent months (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
A review of LinkedIn profiles shows dozens of Apple staffers with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics, and more have joined OpenAI in recent months — Four top lieutenants have left in the past 12 months while dozens of others defect to rivals — A wave of executive departures came …
Google debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M+ context window (Google Research)
Google Research:
Google debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M+ context window — Ali Behrouz, Student Researcher, Meisam Razaviyayn, Staff Researcher, and Vahab Mirrokni, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research
The NHTSA asks Waymo about its self-driving vehicles illegally passing school buses, including 19 times in Texas this year, as part of a probe opened in October (David Shepardson/Reuters)
David Shepardson / Reuters:
The NHTSA asks Waymo about its self-driving vehicles illegally passing school buses, including 19 times in Texas this year, as part of a probe opened in October — A U.S. agency said on Thursday it has asked Waymo to answer more questions after Texas officials said the Alphabet (GOOGL.O) …