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

The delivery network through whose servers about a fifth of all internet traffic passes is blocking AI web 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 latest maneuver is to give enterprises a choice: they can block genAI bots or charge them. But if you make a ...

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

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wants Google to offer improved tools to block AI crawlers. Joining a discussion on this topic ...

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

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

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