There’s an accelerating cat-and-mouse game between web publishers and AI crawlers, and we all stand to lose. We often take the internet for granted. It’s an ocean of information at our fingertips—and ...

Bridgy Fed, which is working to connect the social network Bluesky with the wider fediverse (i.e., the open social web), which includes sites like Mastodon and others, will be the first app incubated ...

Google said in a legal filing last week that the open web "is already in rapid decline." The company later said this was being misinterpreted and filed a clarification with the court. Google execs ...

A position statement for FediForum's unworkshop ...

Our 2026 predictions series rolls on apace, and today we’re looking at the future of the open web. What will our experts predict…? As the open web prepares to enter a critical new phase in 2026, one ...

Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the World Wide Web is dead. Instead of an open and accessible global information system, the web is controlled by centralized global data conglomerates, which don’t just ...

According to Sam Altman, your web browser is outdated. “AI represents a rare, once-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be,” OpenAI’s CEO said yesterday when announcing the company’s ...

When I started using the internet, there was no web. Only computer scientists and geeks were using the internet. Then, along came the web, and everyone could use it. Well, everyone who could master ...

A.I. companies are divided over whether the technology should be freely available to anyone for modifying and copying, or kept close for safekeeping. By Mike Isaac Mike Isaac has written about the ...

The new browser, called Atlas, is designed to work closely with OpenAI products like ChatGPT. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled a free web browser that is designed ...