#ai-companies

#ai-companies

We've known for several months now that San Francisco has the fastest-rising rents in the country, and that the sharp rent increases are because of the AI boom. But the New York Times has a new analysis of how AI companies are gaming the rental market in their employees' favor, in some cases with $1,000-a-month rent stipends, or in other cases, simply paying the employees' rent for them out of the company's VC-rich coffers.

Cloudflare announced a new system to block AI companies from accessing websites without permission or compensation, following concerns over content scraping practices.