OpenAI is reportedly scaling up its crawling infrastructure for the holiday shopping season. The folks at Vercel noticed OpenAI adding a lot of new IP ranges for its bots and crawlers. Ryan Siddle from Merj wrote on LinkedIn, "OpenAI scaling up their infrastructure ahead of Thanksgiving & Black Friday with a lot of /28 blocks." He added later in the comments, "That's just across OpenAI User for new IPs. It doesn't include what they already had. We've seen quite a significant ramp up over the past 1-2 months."
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Travelers and fraudsters both use AI agents now, creating a challenge for fraud detection teams: How do they tell the difference between a real customer booking their own travel, an automated agent acting on behalf of a user, and an automated malicious agent that is engaging in legitimate user workflows? The problem becomes more complex as fraudsters have already tested these tactics during summer travel and are ready to exploit the busiest travel season of the year: the holidays.