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author: Audrey Hingle

Old Protocol, New Problems: Robots.txt

Old Protocol, New Problems: Robots.txt

This week, in our main story: we examine how robots.txt, a decades-old web protocol, has become central to discussions about consent, copyright, and web scraping to power new generative AI tools. Robots.txt Is Having a Moment: Here's Why We Should Care By Mallory Knodel and Audrey

DeepSeek and the Creative Power of Constraints: Doing More with Less Compute

DeepSeek and the Creative Power of Constraints: Doing More with Less Compute

DeepSeek’s success challenges the belief that bigger compute means better AI. Facing chip shortages and export restrictions, it built a powerful reasoning model using reinforcement learning over brute-force scale. In our main article today, Betty Li Hou, Computer Science PhD Student and Machine Learning Researcher at NYU, explores how