Meta quietly backpedaled on controversial web scraping rights after publishers pushed back on AI training data grabs. Meanwhile CoreWeave's massive AI infrastructure bet is crumbling with bonds now trading at junk levels showing cracks in the AI infrastructure boom.

October 17, 2026 — 263 words / ~1.8 min

Stories covered:

  1. Meta Silently Deletes Web Scraping Rights After Publisher Backlash
  2. Meta Rewrites Its Own Rules to Scrape Publisher Content Without Permission
  3. CoreWeave's $50B AI Bet Collapses Into 15% Junk Bond Territory