Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.

Cloudflare’s Pay-Per-Crawl is a clever idea. It’s the first genuine attempt to attach a meter to data before it gets ...

The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.

Cloudflare reshapes the AI landscape by blocking Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default, allowing websites to demand payment for content access.

The Impact of Cloudflare's AI Bot Block Cloudflare, one of the biggest internet infrastructure providers, has launched a new AI Bot Block feature, heralded as a potential ‘game-changer' for content ...

Cloudflare takes a stand on AI crawlers, which could enable publishers to finally make peace with the bots scooping up their ...

On Tuesday, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced that it will block AI bots from scraping data from its sites without opt-in permission. Cloudflare hosts about 20 percent of the ...

Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.

Cloudflare, a company that runs 20% of the web, just flipped a switch that could end the open internet as we know it, forcing AI companies to pay for the content they’ve been taking for free.

Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be asked if they want to allow or block AI crawlers. At least 16% of the world's internet traffic gets routed through ...

This permission-based approach contrasts with the previous model, where web scraping relied on loosely enforced rules, such as robots.txt. Read more on AI scraping: Gray Bots Surge as Generative AI ...