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

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

Cloudflare, a key player in internet infrastructure, is taking aim at the growing issue of artificial intelligence bots ...

Cloudflare’s latest maneuver is to give enterprises a choice: they can block genAI bots or charge them. But if you make a ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Cloudflare, which powers many of the world’s most prominent websites, made waves last week by introducing a default setting ...

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