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 content access.

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

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

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. These AI ...

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.

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

Publishers have been warned that AI companies are relying on third-party content scrapers to steal publisher content, even if ...

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

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 ...