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Promptwatch CEO on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)

Promptwatch founder and CEO Gijs de Groot discusses how search behavior is shifting from traditional engines like Google to AI-driven systems, and why brands must optimize across a broader information ecosystem—what he calls Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). Promptwatch, founded in March 2025, offers a platform that measures brand visibility in AI dialog systems, uses CDN log data and other signals to recommend technical and editorial optimizations, and has introduced a new solution called "Agentic AI Search Optimization" that can apply optimizations automatically. De Groot stresses the continuing importance of owned websites, high-quality content, and trusted sources while warning against mass low-quality AI content and an exclusive reliance on LLM-centered strategies.

OpenAI launches Daybreak Cyber Partner Program

OpenAI announced the Daybreak Cyber Partner Program to bring its frontier cyber models into the services and operations of approved security partners. The program enables security and technology partners to access controlled, gated models (Daybreak Blue and Daybreak Red) for tasks such as vulnerability discovery, validation, red teaming, penetration testing, incident response, and remediation. Access is governed with safeguards — identity verification, defined testing scopes, logging, monitoring, and human oversight — and the underlying models remain under partner-controlled access. The announcement lists global security consultancies and technology vendors as program participants and invites providers to join or contact OpenAI for Daybreak capabilities.

Scraping Sites Protected by Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX

This technical guide explains how modern anti-bot systems block web scrapers and describes practical, probabilistic strategies to collect public data reliably. It outlines four independent detection layers—IP reputation, TLS/HTTP fingerprint, a JavaScript sensor, and behavioral signals—and explains why simple header spoofing fails. The article compares vendor behaviours (Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX/HUMAN, Akamai, Kasada), shows how clearance cookies are IP-bound, and recommends an escalation pattern: Chrome-impersonated HTTP, hardened stealth browsers, and racing fresh IPs with cookie reuse. The guide also contrasts IP tiers (datacenter, residential, mobile), warns that success is never 100% and stresses counting only real pages as successes. It positions Crawlora's Web Scraping API as an example service implementing these techniques.