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

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

In a series of pointed X posts, Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince lays out a bold new policy that treats AI companies like unwelcome guests and hints that even Google might be forced to play by his ...

The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can access their sites.

Cloudflare's new default policy blocks AI crawlers, requiring them to ask for access and pay to crawl websites. This shift ...

Cloudflare has launched a tool that blocks bot crawlers from accessing content without permission or compensation to help websites make money from AI firms trying to access and train on their content, ...

Cloudflare’s new model is an attempt to put the control of online content back into the hands of its original creators and owners. It follows a similar attempt by Creative Commons, which recently ...

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

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Internet firm Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers to prevent them from "accessing content without permission or compensation," by default according to an announcement on Tuesday.