Github: The Download: Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers, Perplexity launches AI-powered browser & more

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This week on The Download, we're covering major shifts in the tech landscape as Cloudflare is now blocking AI crawlers by default. We look at the surprising resurgence of the 40-year-old programming language Ada, Hugging Face's tiny but powerful SmolLM3, the new Reachy Mini open-source robot, and Perplexity's new AI-powered browser, Comet.



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00:00 Welcome to The Download

00:32 Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers by default

01:00 Reachy Mini: An open-source robot for AI

01:49 Hugging Face releases tiny SmolLM3 model

02:34 Why the Ada programming language is back

03:18 Perplexity launches Comet, an AI browser

03:54 What is context engineering?

04:55 This week's developer news recap



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