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

CEO Matthew Prince unveils powerful new tools to block AI companies from freely scraping web content, a move that could ...

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

Cloudflare suggested its AI partners benefit from "long-term collaboration" with creators whose updated content will help AI products stay relevant. They also can stop wasting money scraping poor ...

Media executives finally have concrete data on what AI companies will pay for quality journalism — and it arrives as ...

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 ...

07-14-2025 TECH The era of free AI scraping may be coming to an end Cloudflare takes a stand on AI crawlers, which could enable publishers to finally make peace with the bots scooping up their ...

Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said this week it’s launching a system to block bots from scraping clients’ sites or at least allow them to charge AI companies for access.

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 ...

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 ...