The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, ...

Instead, the AI firm claims Cloudflare confused Perplexity requests with unrelated traffic from BrowserBase, a third-party ...

Cloudflare has since removed Perplexity's bots from its list of verified bots and implemented new AI-blocking techniques.

Perplexity could be in a tricky situation after being called out for accessing websites that don't want to be accessed by AI ...

Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t. Cloudflare pushes Google to separate bots for AI Overviews and search indexing.

News publishers are building fences around their content in an effort to cut off crawlers that don’t pay for content.

AI companies use bots to scrape the web, in order to gather data to train their models. Anubis is a program designed to block these bots from scraping self-hosted sites.

Cloudflare hosts about 20 percent of the Web, and the move is seen as a win for the publishing industry. Previously, website owners using Cloudflare could choose to block AI bots, also known as ...

Cloudflare Just Changed How AI Crawlers Scrape the Internet-at-Large; Permission-Based Approach Makes Way for A New Business Model Empowers leading publishers and AI companies to stop the scraping ...

Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest internet infrastructure providers, has begun blocking AI web crawlers by default unless they receive direct permission from site owners. This new policy changes ...

People are replacing Google search with artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, a major shift that has unleashed a new kind of bot loose on the web. To offer users a tidy AI summary instead of ...