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Major AI developers adopt a unified web scraping opt-out standard, DoorDash speeds up reorders using AI agents, and a malicious Claude extension compromises 5,000 developers on the Cursor marketplace.
- Major AI developers back unified web crawling opt-out standard — Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are supporting a unified robots.txt signal. This allows publishers to block AI scraping across platforms simultaneously, addressing mounting legal pressure.
- DoorDash reduces reorder latency with AI agents despite low consumer adoption — DoorDash integrated AI agents to precompute recurring purchases, reducing grocery reorder latency from 16 seconds to 2 seconds. Despite backend success, consumer adoption remains at several hundred orders.
- Malicious Claude Code extension compromises Cursor marketplace — A backdoored version of the verified Anthropic Claude Code extension remained on Cursor for 12 hours. It affected up to 5,000 users before the marketplace was taken offline.
- Google boots up first AI data center satellite in space — Google successfully booted up Tensor Processing Units on an orbiting satellite to run the DeepMind Gemma 4 model. This demonstrates that AI inference hardware can operate independently in space.
- OpenAI raises $11 billion and misses its $30 billion target — OpenAI closed its latest funding round at $11 billion with a $1.25 trillion valuation. This falls short of its original $30 billion target as investors seek clearer profitability paths.
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