Five of the web's biggest data-scraping brands now sit under one $3.6 billion umbrella, and AI agents are the reason why
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Quadrupled demand from AI agents turning the web into a machine-readable firehose is consolidating scraping into industrial-scale infrastructure. If your product depends on third-party web data, treat providers like core infra vendors — redundancy, contracts, and rate-limit risk now matter as much as accuracy.
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