AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...

Automattic’s WP Engine Tracker website was temporarily blocked by Cloudflare over the weekend as a suspected phishing site, sparking cheers from members of the WordPress subreddit. Meanwhile, someone ...

Google sees 3.2x more webpages than OpenAI. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wants Google to separate search crawling from AI crawling. Cloudflare has blocked 416 billion AI bot requests for customers ...

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler ...

In recent days, a battle has been brewing that may realign the contours of web standards with artificial intelligence (AI), the idea of an open web, and how data is collected by AI companies. Internet ...

The feud underscores the need for new standards in AI-web interaction, as bot detection tools struggle to distinguish between helpful assistants and harmful scrapers. A public war of words has erupted ...

Cloudflare will block AI crawlers from accessing web pages by default, while providing more granular options for site owners to control the type of AI bots to crawl their pages. In addition, ...