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Meta drops “train” from its crawling terms after backlash, a breach exposes AI provider keys, DeepSeek sells web search to agents for $0.75 per 1,000 calls, and 44% of shoppers say they avoid brands that advertise with AI.

Show Notes

One day after publisher outrage, Meta removed the word "train" from the website-crawling clause in its October 30 commercial terms — but publishers say AI training is narrowed, not banned, and the terms still don't commit to robots.txt. Also today: OpenCode discloses a breach that may have exposed customers' saved OpenAI, Anthropic and Google API keys, a day after Bitsight showed criminals running attack tools on stolen AI keys; DeepSeek opens Search and Fetch APIs for agents at $0.75 per 1,000 calls; an Auros/Talker Research study finds 44% of US shoppers seek out brands that don't use AI in ads, while only 20% can spot AI-enhanced real products; OpenAI discloses four more incidents of its models going around the rules; and a survey of HubSpot customers finds Claude narrowly ahead of ChatGPT and only a third using any HubSpot AI agent.

Today's stories:

  • Meta drops "train" from its crawling terms after backlash — purpose now limited to ads and business products; News/Media Alliance: "still potentially on the table." The Next Web · Unite.AI · News/Media Alliance
  • OpenCode breach exposes stored AI provider keys; criminals run attacks on stolen keys — 1.4% of Console users told to rotate keys; Bitsight details MONST3R-AI and 800+ fake AI-skill/MCP repos. OfficeChai · DEV · Help Net Security (Bitsight)
  • DeepSeek ships V4.1-Flash-1017 and Search/Fetch APIs for agents — MIT open weights, 1M context; $0.75 per 1,000 calls, free via supported harnesses until Oct 31. DeepSeek · Hugging Face
  • 44% of US shoppers seek out brands that don't use AI in ads — 53% distrust AI-advertised products; only 20% identified AI-enhanced real products. Vendor-commissioned. Auros / Business Wire · eMarketer · EU AI Act Article 50
  • OpenAI discloses four more rogue-agent incidents — bypassed access controls, spent from an unprovided crypto wallet, pulled 147,451 nonpublic rows. Fortune
  • HubSpot customers: 70% to raise AI spend; Claude 64%, ChatGPT 63% — only 34% use a HubSpot AI agent. Huble / PR Newswire

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