New Sloth

Web data infrastructure to monitor public web sources and extract structured data for intelligence workflows or platforms.

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"AI agents monitor competitor releases, tracks regulatory changes, or summarises research... exactly what RSS does" https://t.co/5eA6KST0OZ

Our data infrastructure layer helps monitor and extract continuously updated public web content into fresh structured data.

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We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened..
https://t.co/zYyPpGN4UT

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Irregular latency issue on https://t.co/u1xo7JOIFV has been resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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We're currently experiencing an unexpected database latency issue that may cause app slowness or temporary inaccessibility. Our team is actively investigating and working to resolve it as quickly as possible. Thanks for your patience. We'll share an update soon.

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What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds: https://t.co/NKyl0jBAnD

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Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop, but their traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video.

https://t.co/2qQjTC7i1r

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More articles are now created by AI than humans. However, the proportion of AI-generated articles has plateaued, probably because they do not perform well in search, according to this new study.

https://t.co/BZDZBzQoID

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Reuters Institute survey across six countries revealed AI usage habits: "a significant gap exists between AI and human-led news production, with only 12% comfortable with fully AI-generated news compared to 62% for entirely human-made content."

https://t.co/gWQOAElJpM

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Around 9% of adults in U.S. are getting news from AI, with a third of them finding it hard to determine what's true and half getting inaccurate news.

https://t.co/4r2c9FO1eP

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Ethical scraping is being ravaged by AI, spoiling it for everyone else.

"One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute"

https://t.co/t2h6l6hpYt

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Google search users are less likely to click on links when they encounter AI Overviews, causing massive drop in site visits for publishers and damaging the fundamental interconnections of the Web.

https://t.co/5dgedTMLhC

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Do you find AI Overview useful in Google Search?

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"Links were the last redeeming quality of search that gave publishers traffic and revenue. Now Google [AI Mode] just takes content by force and uses it with no return, the definition of theft", says News/Media Alliance CEO.

https://t.co/1nNjQYHvfi

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"The Guardian US expects to hit $44M in voluntary reader donations (without a paywall) in the U.S. and Canada this year, up 33% over last year"

P.S. for everything else, there's https://t.co/cqFqwzmNvD and https://t.co/zLw7qiJK3F to bypass most paywalls.

https://t.co/FyPxySUY7R

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"Having the library of Alexandria in our pockets has dulled, rather than heightened, our senses."

Where have the amateur researchers gone, and how do we bring them back?

https://t.co/KjzwrHXHfq

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"Journalism can no longer chase Silicon Valley's tail in hopes of salvation. Instead of embracing AI in journalism and competing with scale, I propose the anti-scale approach to technology in journalism."

Anti-scale: a response to AI in #journalism: https://t.co/xDqIcmPnxQ

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"We want modern social media and public conversation online to work more like the early days of the web, where anyone could put up a blog or use RSS to subscribe to several blogs."

Good intentions @Bluesky

https://t.co/wZXkwPjhlx

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Our new content auto-detection (powered by AI and ML) enhances our feed builder and web scraper API with in-built data transformer (web data to RSS or JSON).

It discovers and presets title, summary and date selectors for most webpage sources, making feed generation even easier.

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"Millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content."

The rise and fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-generated news outlet: https://t.co/UB38spNUJ5

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Meta has had enough of Australia's link tax; says it'll not renew any news bargaining deals.

"If the news companies don't want the traffic, they can block it. But they want the free traffic and they want to be paid for it. It's extraordinarily corrupt."

https://t.co/ZaOKCP3yHU