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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The internet architecture provider will also let some publishers make known AI scrapers pay to crawl their sites.

We’re changing the rules of the internet across all of Cloudflare,” said Matthew Prince, the CEO of the company and Utah's ...

Cloudflare’s latest maneuver is to give enterprises a choice: they can block genAI bots or charge them. But if you make a ...

Cloudflare’s new model is an attempt to put the control of online content back into the hands of its original creators and ...

Cloudflare recently announced a new "pay-per-crawl" system aimed at pushing back against AI companies that continue to scrape ...