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TechCrunch went from the failure list to 77× compression — the highest in the news vertical.</p>\n        <p><strong>Category:</strong> Benchmarks.</p>\n        <p><strong>Tags:</strong> Benchmarks, v0.5.0, News &amp; Media.</p>\n        <p><a href=\"https://somspec.org/blog/techcrunch-was-blocked\">Read the full article on somspec.org</a>.</p>","date_published":"2026-04-04T00:00:00Z","date_modified":"2026-04-04T00:00:00Z","tags":["Benchmarks","Benchmarks","v0.5.0","News & Media"],"authors":[{"name":"SOMspec","url":"https://somspec.org"}],"language":"en-US","_meta":{"category":{"slug":"benchmarks","label":"Benchmarks","color":"#1A6B3A"},"reading_time":"5 min read","featured":false}},{"id":"https://somspec.org/blog/the-discovery-gap","url":"https://somspec.org/blog/the-discovery-gap","title":"The Discovery Gap: Why AI Agents Miss Your SOM Directives","summary":"Even when publishers correctly implement SOM Directives, most AI agents never find them. The research explains why — and what framework authors can do about it.","content_html":"<p>Even when publishers correctly implement SOM Directives, most AI agents never find them. The research explains why — and what framework authors can do about it.</p>\n        <p><strong>Category:</strong> Compliance.</p>\n        <p><strong>Tags:</strong> Research, Compliance, robots.txt.</p>\n        <p><a href=\"https://somspec.org/blog/the-discovery-gap\">Read the full article on somspec.org</a>.</p>","date_published":"2026-04-04T00:00:00Z","date_modified":"2026-04-04T00:00:00Z","tags":["Compliance","Research","Compliance","robots.txt"],"authors":[{"name":"SOMspec","url":"https://somspec.org"}],"language":"en-US","_meta":{"category":{"slug":"compliance","label":"Compliance","color":"#2B5EA7"},"reading_time":"6 min read","featured":false}},{"id":"https://somspec.org/blog/the-publishers-third-option","url":"https://somspec.org/blog/the-publishers-third-option","title":"The Publisher's Third Option","summary":"Publishers face a binary: block AI agents or serve them raw HTML at full cost. The robots.txt SOM Directives proposal offers a third path — cooperative, economically rational, and five minutes to implement.","content_html":"<p>Publishers face a binary: block AI agents or serve them raw HTML at full cost. The robots.txt SOM Directives proposal offers a third path — cooperative, economically rational, and five minutes to implement.</p>\n        <p><strong>Category:</strong> Publishers.</p>\n        <p><strong>Tags:</strong> Publishers, robots.txt, Economics.</p>\n        <p><a href=\"https://somspec.org/blog/the-publishers-third-option\">Read the full article on somspec.org</a>.</p>","date_published":"2026-04-04T00:00:00Z","date_modified":"2026-04-04T00:00:00Z","tags":["Publishers","Publishers","robots.txt","Economics"],"authors":[{"name":"SOMspec","url":"https://somspec.org"}],"language":"en-US","_meta":{"category":{"slug":"publishers","label":"Publishers","color":"#7A3E12"},"reading_time":"5 min read","featured":false}},{"id":"https://somspec.org/blog/reading-the-leaderboard","url":"https://somspec.org/blog/reading-the-leaderboard","title":"How to Read the WebTaskBench Leaderboard","summary":"What does a 43× compression ratio actually mean for an AI agent? 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