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

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

The delivery network through whose servers about a fifth of all internet traffic passes is blocking AI web crawlers ...

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

Cloudflare (NET) Opinions on AI Scraper Blocking Policy July 06, 2025 — 01:00 pm EDT Written by Quiver DiscussionTracker for Quiver Quantitative -> ...

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.

“I can’t wrap my head around it," says Andrew Wee, who has been a Silicon Valley data-center and hardware guy for 30 years.

Cloudflare NET is implementing artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives across its portfolio and experiencing strong traction across AI Gateway, Workers AI and Durable Objects and Containers ...

Matthew Prince started receiving worried calls from the chief executives of large media companies. They told Prince, whose ...

Fed up with AI companies scraping your site's content? Meet Anubis, the self-hosted, proof-of-work firewall that's stopping AI bots in their tracks.

Among the most controversial commitments that the EU is asking companies like Google, Meta, and OpenAI to voluntarily make is ...

In a series of pointed X posts, Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince lays out a bold new policy that treats AI companies like unwelcome guests and hints that even Google might be forced to play by his ...