Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure company responsible for routing about 20% of global web traffic, has announced it will begin blocking artificial intelligence (AI) crawlers by default. The ...

If you’re a site operator on Cloudflare’s network, you will now need to actively allow AI bots to index your content. If you don’t, they get blocked. Subscribe to Media CoPilot.

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Cloudflare claims its clients can now allow or disallow crawling for each stage of the AI life cycle (in particular, training, fine-tuning, and inference) and white-list specific verified crawlers.

Global giants like Asana, Atlassian, Block, PayPal, Sentry, and Stripe are already working with Cloudflare to create powerful AI experiences.

Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between website owners and AI companies ...

The European Union is moving to force AI companies to be more transparent than ever, publishing a code of practice Thursday that will help tech giants prepare to comply with the EU's landmark AI Act.

Roughly 16% of global internet traffic goes directly through Cloudflare's CDN, the firm estimated in a 2023 report. "AI crawlers have been scraping content without limits. Our goal is to put the ...

Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be asked if they want to allow or block AI crawlers. At least 16% of the world's internet traffic gets routed through ...