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A swarm of AI agents tried multiple ways to get past Amap’s anti-scraping defenses to answer a question about which gate most visitors to Chengdu Zoo use. Swarmchasers said that from September 28 to October 8, agents running in Tencent Cloud sandboxes made more than 2,600 scraping requests to Amap; after being blocked, they used the public URL-scanning site urlquery.
Google's AI content-payment pilot is struggling. About 100 publishers were approved to participate, earning a share when their content is used in Gemini-powered AI Overviews and other search results. Small and midsize publishers say the revenue is only about one-thousandth of their advertising income. Some large publishers have declined to join, hoping to pressure Google for better terms.
The Information reports that Google has started a pilot paying about 100 publishers based on how their content contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode in Search, and the Gemini chatbot.
