DataDome Launches Priority Protect: Virtual Waiting Room with Continuous In-Queue Bot Detection and AI Agent Trust Management

DataDome Details "Buy for Me" AI Agent Threats in E-Commerce; Frames Intent Assessment as Core Defense

New CCBot IPv4 CIDR block added: 3.41.188.32/29

A new IPv4 CIDR block `3.41.188.32/29` has been appended to the [CCBot IP range list](https://commoncrawl.org/faq) under the "What is the IP range of the Common Crawl CCBot?" section. The date stamp on the block list sti

Sea Limited Deploys OpenAI Codex Across Engineering Teams for AI-Native Development

DataDome Publishes Virtual Waiting Room Selection Guide Emphasizing AI Agent Triage and Intent-Based Policies

OpenAI Releases Windows Sandbox Implementation for Codex Agents

Anthropic's Connector Expansion Signals Mainstreaming of MCP Traffic; DataDome Reports 50x MCP Surge

OpenAI Details Security & Compliance Framework for Codex Agent Deployment

OpenAI Integrates Parloa Voice Agents into Ecosystem

EU Commission Simplifies AI Rules and Bans Nudification Tech

EU Commission Announces Political Agreement on Simplified AI Rules

DataDome publishes virtual waiting room guide positioning AI agent triage as core infrastructure capability

DataDome launches Agent Trust control plane for agentic AI traffic governance

EU and Japan Deepen Digital Partnership with Expanded Cooperation Framework

DataDome publishes 10-point bot/agent management vendor evaluation framework

NMA Demands Common Crawl Stop Unauthorized Scraping and Establish AI-Use Protections

NMA Files Amicus Brief Supporting Amazon's Legal Action Against Perplexity Over Unauthorized Scraping

Perplexity bots doc adds llms.txt documentation index pointer

A new "Documentation Index" header block was prepended to the [Perplexity bots guide](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots), directing readers (and LLM crawlers) to fetch [https://docs.perplexity.ai/llms.txt](https://d

Chrome's AI Web APIs Enable New Hardware Fingerprinting Technique for Bot Detection

OpenAI Academy Introduces Workspace Agents Training for ChatGPT Workflow Automation

OpenAI Details WebSocket Optimization for Agent Performance

OpenAI Launches Workspace Agents in ChatGPT for Cloud-Based Workflow Automation

Cloudflare argues "bot vs. human" framing is obsolete; advocates behavior-based detection and Privacy Pass for anonymous credentials

Agent Infrastructure Digest Refreshed with Rapid Protocol & Orchestration Advances (April 5–19, 2026)

Digest Refresh: 8 Items Dropped, 2 New Items Added, Framing Shifts on Pay-Per-Crawl and Cloudflare Features

The crawler insights digest was substantially refreshed. Eight previous items were removed entirely: dedicated AI training crawlers approaching 50% of bot traffic; publisher struggles with the third-party scraper economy