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Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.
Google is seeking to recruit news organizations for a new licensing project related to artificial intelligence, according to ...
Cloudflare, which powers many of the world’s most prominent websites, made waves last week by introducing a default setting ...
AI has emerged as a battleground for power—between companies, industries, and even nations. Among the most impacted are ...
Summarizing online content is good for the search giant, not so much for publishers ai-pocalypse Google Search users are less ...
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 ...
Cloudflare recently announced a new "pay-per-crawl" system aimed at pushing back against AI companies that continue to scrape the open web without paying a cent. According ...
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 ...
Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said the move was motivated by Google's future plans to charge for the use of the reCAPTCHA service, which would have "added millions of dollars in ...