Website infrastructure company Cloudflare has announced moves designed to stop AI from scraping digital content for free.

AI has emerged as a battleground for power—between companies, industries, and even nations. Among the most impacted are ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The rise of AI-generated content since 2022 risks making it impossible to know when information was produced solely by humans ...