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

Cloudflare, one of the world's largest content delivery networks and web security service providers, is taking on AI bots ...

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

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

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

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

Cloudflare CEO, Matthew Prince, has initiated a policy to block AI companies from scraping data unless they compensate content creators, potentially impacting giants like Google.

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

Cloudflare is giving creators control over their content, allowing them to charge or block AI web crawlers from accessing ...

Major publications have already signed up, including Ziff Davis, The Atlantic, ADWEEK, BuzzFeed, Time, O’Reilly Media, ...