# ai.txt — Tech Observer
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# Tech Observer is a technology news magazine covering government technology,
# defence, enterprise IT, telecom, startups and consumer electronics. We invest
# significant editorial resources in original reporting, named-source interviews
# and analysis. This file states our position on the use of our content by
# AI systems and training data compilers.
#
# This file follows the Spawning AI ai.txt specification:
#   https://site.spawning.ai/spaces/ai-txt
#
# Last updated: 2026-05-08

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# Position summary (human-readable)
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# 1. Use of Tech Observer content for the purpose of training
#    foundation models, fine-tuning, model distillation, embedding
#    generation, retrieval-augmented generation indexing, or any
#    other automated incorporation of our content into the weights,
#    indexes or outputs of an AI system, requires a written licence
#    from Tech Observer.
#
# 2. Citation-based use by live AI search and answer products that
#    link readers back to the original article on techobserver.in
#    (for example, Perplexity, ChatGPT search, Google AI Overviews,
#    Bing Copilot, Claude with web search) is permitted on a
#    fair-use basis, subject to attribution and an outbound link.
#
# 3. Snippets, summaries, paraphrases or any reproduction of our
#    content within an AI product must include a clear, clickable
#    attribution to techobserver.in and to the named author of the
#    original article where applicable.
#
# 4. Photographs, illustrations, charts, audio, video and other
#    media on this site are protected by separate licences. Their
#    use in AI systems, including generative reproduction and
#    style transfer, is not permitted under any circumstances
#    without prior written consent.
#
# For licensing, partnership or compensation enquiries contact:
#   editorial@techobserver.in
#
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# Machine-readable directives (Spawning AI ai.txt format)
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# By default, no media type from this site may be incorporated into
# AI training datasets without a licence.
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /

# Specifically opt out of common training-corpus categories.
DisallowMediaType: text
DisallowMediaType: image
DisallowMediaType: audio
DisallowMediaType: video
DisallowMediaType: code

# Operators with an existing licence may identify themselves and
# fetch under terms agreed in that licence. Add agreed user-agents
# below; this section is empty by default.
# Example, post-licensing:
#   User-Agent: ExampleLicensedAI
#   Allow: /

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# Notes on enforcement
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# This file expresses publisher intent. It is respected by ethical
# AI dataset compilers and operators. Compliance with this file
# does not waive any rights under the Copyright Act 1957 (India),
# the Information Technology Act 2000, applicable EU and US
# copyright law, the EU AI Act, or any other applicable law.
#
# Continued crawling, scraping or use of this site beyond the terms
# stated above may, depending on jurisdiction, constitute copyright
# infringement and/or unauthorised computer access.