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 ...

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

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

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.

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

AI companies use bots to scrape the web, in order to gather data to train their models. Anubis is a program designed to block ...

While copyright issues play out in the courts, websites are trying to stop AI developers from scraping their content.

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

Cloudflare, which powers many of the world’s most prominent websites, made waves last week by introducing a default setting ...

The era of unrestricted AI crawling appears to be ending - well, at least for the fifth of the internet that flows through ...

Cloudflare now beta testing pay-per-crawl feature to stop endless AI scraping. ... Each publisher will be able to set their own prices that bots must pay before scraping content, Cloudflare said.