{ "date": "2026-10-31", "subject": "OpenAI, Google and Anthropic back one AI opt-out", "preview": "Four AI giants back a shared robots.txt opt-out. Plus: OpenAI's smaller raise, a Claude Code extension backdoor, and Reddit's AI Mode warning.", "dek": "Four AI giants back a shared robots.txt opt-out. Plus: OpenAI's smaller raise, a Claude Code extension backdoor, and Reddit's AI Mode warning.", "the_one": { "title": "OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic say they will support a shared robots.txt signal that lets sites opt out of AI training.", "category": "Policy & Law", "coverage_tag": "Everyone covered this", "body": "The \"policy token\" is proposed at the Internet Engineering Task Force by an Anthropic standards lead and would live in a site's robots.txt file. A publisher could set one preference that applies across participating companies, instead of configuring each crawler separately. The standard is upcoming, and support is voluntary.", "take": "One signal beats a pile of per-company rules, but it only works if crawlers honor it and the standard is finalized.", "todo": "If you run a site, watch for the final standard and plan to add the signal to your robots.txt once it ships.", "source_name": "", "url": "", "chart": null }, "rest": [ { "rank": 1, "title": "OpenAI has cut its fundraising target by $10 billion, the Financial Times reports.", "category": "Funding & Business", "coverage_tag": "Everyone covered this", "body": "The company is now seeking about $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, down from $30 billion at $1.4 trillion, as an AI stock selloff and Anthropic's coming listing complicate the round.", "source_name": "", "url": "", "quiet_signal": false, "chart": null, "image": null }, { "rank": 2, "title": "A tampered Claude Code extension sat in Cursor's marketplace for roughly 11 hours with an SSH backdoor.", "category": "Safety & Security", "coverage_tag": "Everyone covered this", "body": "Cursor says it removed the extension and that the backdoor was unlikely to work in many cases. Anthropic says the incident only affects Cursor users.", "source_name": "", "url": "", "quiet_signal": false, "chart": null, "image": null }, { "rank": 3, "title": "Reddit's CEO says Google's AI Mode does not drive traffic, and Reddit is shifting toward a logged-in experience.", "category": "People & Culture", "coverage_tag": "Widely covered", "body": "Reddit says its search referrals fell by more than 1 million a week on average in October, and warned that daily users could fall by a low double-digit percentage next quarter.", "source_name": "", "url": "", "quiet_signal": false, "chart": null, "image": null }, { "rank": 4, "title": "US senators asked Meta to explain how it is handling serious privacy risks with its AI glasses.", "category": "Policy & Law", "coverage_tag": "Widely covered", "body": "Senators Wyden and Markey gave Meta until November 25 to answer nine questions.", "source_name": "", "url": "", "quiet_signal": false, "chart": null, "image": null }, { "rank": 5, "title": "Cognizant formed an OpenAI Frontier Capability Group of more than 25,000 staff.", "category": "People & Culture", "coverage_tag": "Barely covered", "body": "Cognizant says the group will deploy Codex and ChatGPT for clients. The move comes 11 days after it put 18,000 staff behind Google's Gemini.", "source_name": "", "url": "", "quiet_signal": true, "chart": null, "image": null } ], "your_move": "If you run a website, read up on the shared AI opt-out signal and decide what your robots.txt should say, and if you use Cursor, confirm your Claude Code extension is updated.", "categories": { "Policy & Law": [ [ "AI Giants Back a New Way to Opt Out of Data Scraping", "" ], [ "Senators Are Looking Into 'Serious Privacy Risks' With Meta's AI Glasses", "" ], [ "Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face Deal Faces DOJ Antitrust Scrutiny", "" ], [ "Disney character AI licensing plan faces privacy scrutiny in bankruptcy court", "" ], [ "Wikimedia Foundation: AI copyright decision threatens the open web", "" ] ], "Funding & Business": [ [ "As Anthropic finally files for IPO, rising risks aren’t slowing the AI buildout to yet", "" ], [ "OpenAI Funding Target Cut by $10 Billion as AI Slumps, FT Says", "" ], [ "Cohere targets CAD$7 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