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DuolingoDuolingo

Your guide to the French alphabet

Comprehensive guide to mastering the French alphabet, including letter names, pronunciations, accent marks, ligatures, and usage tips.

7/1/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

Message Signatures are now part of our Verified Bots Program, simplifying bot authentication

Cloudflare integrates HTTP Message Signatures into its Verified Bots Program, enhancing bot authentication by leveraging cryptographic signatures to simplify bot verification and improve trusted traffic identification for site owners.

7/1/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

From Googlebot to GPTBot: who’s crawling your site in 2025

The landscape of web crawling is rapidly evolving in 2025 with AI-powered crawlers like GPTBot and Meta-ExternalAgent gaining prominence, Googlebot's dominance expanding, and growing complexities around content rights and crawler management through tools like robots.txt and firewalls.

7/1/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access

Cloudflare introduces pay per crawl, a new system using HTTP 402 status codes to allow content owners to monetize AI crawler access through configurable pricing and secure authentication.

7/1/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content

Cloudflare introduces managed robots.txt and selective AI bot blocking on ad-monetized content to give website owners granular control over AI training data usage and protect publisher revenue.

7/1/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers

Analyzing how AI-driven crawlers differ from traditional search bots in content consumption and referral traffic, and introducing new Cloudflare Radar metrics and tools to help publishers manage AI bot impacts on web traffic and monetization.

7/1/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!

The shift from traditional search to AI-driven content consumption challenges the existing web business model, prompting Cloudflare and partners to require AI crawlers to compensate content creators, marking a new era for content value and creator rights.

7/1/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

AI in Australia—OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint

Exploring OpenAI’s strategic plan to integrate AI technologies within Australia’s economic landscape.

6/30/2025
StripeStripe

Inside the growth of the top AI companies on Stripe

Analysis of top AI companies on Stripe reveals unprecedented revenue growth, rapid global expansion, and innovative monetization strategies accelerating the AI economy.

6/30/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Accelerating scientific discovery with AI

FutureHouse leverages advanced AI agents to automate and accelerate complex scientific research workflows, enhancing literature review, data analysis, hypothesis generation, and experiment planning across various disciplines.

6/30/2025
MetaMeta

Meta joins Kotlin Foundation

Meta has joined the Kotlin Foundation as a gold member, enhancing its commitment to Kotlin through codebase migration, open source contributions, and ecosystem support.

6/30/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Using generative AI to help robots jump higher and land safely

Generative AI diffusion models are revolutionizing robot design by optimizing structures for improved jumping height and safer landings, demonstrated by an MIT-developed robot that jumps 41% higher and lands 84% more stably than traditional designs.

6/27/2025