Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Internet for the week ending September 4, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A psychedelic 1960s screen-printed gig poster of a swirling planet-earth globe whose continents melt into tangled network cables, URL ribbons, and hyperlink chains that spiral outward in op-art waves, blooming browser windows and cursor-arrow leaves drifting through an ornate border, a harvest moon glowing behind, with the words 'Internet' hand-lettered in bold curving psychedelic title type at the top, printed in electric magenta, acid orange, deep teal, and lime green on cream paper with visible registration offset and paper texture.
This Week in Internet News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
Press Gazette reported new research suggesting Amazon and Meta run the most prolific AI bots visiting websites worldwide, accounting for most visits.
Ethan Mollick pointed to early evidence that Google AI Overviews may be hurting Wikipedia the way coding agents hurt StackExchange. Separately, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas claimed Perplexity is the best at search at any level of compute.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Internet
Amazon and Meta AI bots account for most website visits – Press Gazette
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/amazon-and-meta-ai-bots-account-for-most-website-visits/
Amazon and Meta appear to be the two companies with the most prolific AI bots when it comes to the visiting of websites worldwide, according to new research
https://x.com/pressgazette/status/2095491369712120200
Some early evidence that Google AI Overviews may be doing to Wikipedia the same thing that coding agents did to StackExchange…
https://x.com/emollick/status/2093530834124800046
perplexity is the best at search at any level of compute, agnostic of how much compute the competitors use.
https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/2093450252317794314
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