Ai2 releases MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent with 30K human task trajectories and a full training stack

Ai2's MolmoWeb is the first open-weight visual web agent to ship with its full training dataset, giving enterprise teams the ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners’ biggest investigations

Over the past year, several major news media companies have signed on the dotted line with OpenAI, entering a content licensing partnership with the developer of ChatGPT. Most of those partnership ...
IEEE

Web API Recommendation via Exploring Textual and Structural Semantics With Contrastive Learning and Joint Training

Abstract: With the advancement of service computing technology, software developers tend to consume a variety of Web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces, also named Web services) from Web API ...
Searchenginejournal.com

SEO Fundamental: Google Explains Why It May Not Use A Sitemap

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about why a Search Console was providing a sitemap fetch error even though server logs show that GoogleBot successfully ...
InfoWorld

WebMCP API extends web apps to AI agents

W3C proposal backed by Google and Microsoft allows developers to expose client-side JavaScript tools to AI agents, enabling collaborative workflows between users and agents within the same web ...
TechCrunch

Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users

Spotify is changing how its APIs work in Developer Mode, its layer that lets developers test their third-party applications using the audio platform’s APIs. The changes include a mandatory premium ...
Geeky Gadgets

Gemini’s Web Tool Makes Scrapers Look Outdated

What if extracting data from PDFs, images, or websites could be as fast as snapping your fingers? Prompt Engineering explores how the Gemini web scraper is transforming data extraction with ...
The New York Times

Trump Has Renamed the Kennedy Center, but a Satirist Owns the URL

A comedy writer bought the web domain TrumpKennedyCenter.org and the satirical site he created is drawing attention amid the backlash over the institution’s renaming. By John Yoon and Victor Mather ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google AI Mode & AI Overviews Cite Different URLs, Per Ahrefs Report

AI Mode and AI Overviews cited the same URLs only 13.7% of the time. Responses averaged 86% semantic similarity despite low word overlap. AI Mode responses were longer and included more entities and ...
People

World's Largest Spider Web, Home to 110,000 Arachnids, Found in Underwater Cave

The colony was located on the Greece-Albania border in Europe Cover Images via AP Images The world's largest spider web has been discovered in an underwater cave on the border of Greece and Albania in ...
The New York Times

Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. By Adeel Hassan Even in a pitch-black cave, what appears ...
Windows Report

Google Could Make It Possible to Install Web Apps in All Browsers, Not Just Chrome and Edge

Google is testing the Web Install API, a new standard that lets websites install Progressive Web Apps directly from the web across different browsers. Google has started to test the Web Install API, a ...