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 ...

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

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

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

Roughly 16% of global internet traffic goes directly through Cloudflare's CDN, the firm estimated in a 2023 report. "AI crawlers have been scraping content without limits. Our goal is to put the ...

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 ...