Aug 5, 2025 6 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ Perplexity Burned Rulebook

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Good Morning, AI Enthusiasts!

The internet has officially entered its "rules optional" era. But don’t ask where the manual went—we’re not even pretending to read it anymore.

TRAINING

Perplexity Burned the Rulebook

📌 What’s happening: Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure giant, just called out Perplexity for scraping websites that explicitly barred AI crawlers via robots.txt — the decades-old standard for digital consent. Worse, Perplexity allegedly disguised its bots to impersonate Chrome browsers and rotated IPs to bypass detection, triggering millions of unauthorized hits across tens of thousands of domains daily.

🧠 How this hits reality: This isn’t just a ToS scuffle — it’s an outright demolition of the web’s unspoken handshake. For publishers, it kills the last line of defense between proprietary content and commoditized LLM fodder. For other AI startups, it sets a dangerous precedent: cloak, scrape, deny.

🛎️ Key takeaway: When LLMs treat robots.txt like a speed bump, they’re not innovating — they’re looting under cover of HTTP headers.

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NEW LAUNCH

Google’s AI Bug Hunter Finds 20 Flaws Autonomously

📌 What’s happening: Google’s LLM-powered security agent, Big Sleep, just flagged 20 zero-days in open source libraries like FFmpeg and ImageMagick. Built by DeepMind and Project Zero, the tool autonomously found and reproduced the bugs — with a human only stepping in to validate the report before disclosure. Google calls it a “new frontier in automated vulnerability discovery.”

🧠 How this hits reality: Security workflows just got their first taste of automated offense and defense. Forget manually trawling codebases — Big Sleep did the hunting and debugging solo. The signal? AI security agents are no longer hypothetical R&D; they’re becoming production-grade tools. Bug bounty platforms, pen-test teams, and open source maintainers are about to feel the heat — or the false positives.

🛎️ Key takeaway: Welcome to the next arms race: not who finds bugs fastest, but whose AI can fix them before breakfast.

MILESTONE

ChatGPT Hits 700M Users

📌 What’s happening: OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to cross 700 million weekly active users — up 40% since March and 4x YoY. User engagement now trails only Google and X, with people clocking 16 minutes a day, 12+ days a month. On top of that? 5 million business subscribers. The catalyst: GPT-4-powered image gen and a string of app updates that actually landed.

🧠 How this hits reality: This isn’t another “record-breaking app.” This is AI reaching escape velocity — not as a demo, but as daily infrastructure. From students to execs, ChatGPT isn’t a tool anymore. It’s ambient. For SaaS vendors, IT leads, and creative teams still “waiting to see,” this was the window.

🛎️ Key takeaway: 700M isn’t user growth — it’s a species-level milestone. AI just became a utility.

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