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

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 ...

As AI tools reshape how content is created and consumed, creators risk being cut out of the value chain. The current ...

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.

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

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

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

CEO Matthew Prince unveils powerful new tools to block AI companies from freely scraping web content, a move that could ...

Internet firm Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers to prevent them from "accessing content without permission or compensation," by default according to an announcement on Tuesday.

Cloudflare also introduced a new “pay per crawl” model, which allows publishers to charge AI crawlers for content access. A close-up of a server array powering a cloud-services system.

Cloudflare’s new model is an attempt to put the control of online content back into the hands of its original creators and owners. It follows a similar attempt by Creative Commons, which recently ...

Cloudflare’s new pay per crawl system for site owners and content creators is currently in a private beta.