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  "id": 7042046,
  "title": "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/13/everyone-should-slow-down-ai-development-except-for-me-7042046",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-13T00:53:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Lobsters",
    "slug": "lobsters",
    "url": "https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/everyone-slowdown-but-me/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In an attempt to curb AI companies from aggressively scraping websites, administrators have implemented the Anubis system. This system uses a Proof-of-Work scheme similar to Hashcash, originally designed to reduce email spam. While the additional load on individual servers is considered negligible, at a large scale, it significantly increases the cost of scraping. The system serves as a temporary solution, allowing for more time to focus on identifying and blocking headless browsers, which are often used by AI crawlers. Users should be aware that Anubis requires modern JavaScript features that plugins like JShelter will disable, thus disabling JShelter or similar plugins for this domain is necessary to access the website.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Hacker News",
        "title": "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/13/everyone-should-slow-down-ai-development-except-for-me",
        "published": "2026-09-13T00:30:44.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}