“I can’t wrap my head around it," says Andrew Wee, who has been a Silicon Valley data-center and hardware guy for 30 years.

Among the most controversial commitments that the EU is asking companies like Google, Meta, and OpenAI to voluntarily make is ...

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.

Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be given the option to allow — or block — AI crawlers.

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's new pay-per-crawl feature blocks AI crawlers and allows publishers to charge for access, sparking debate in the SEO industry over content visibility and monetization.

By blocking AI bots and enabling micropayments for access, Cloudflare aims to help content creators protect and monetize their content.

Cloudflare has unveiled how it is taking a stand against AI companies and protecting all of the websites it hosts from unwanted AI crawlers.

Cloudflare introduces default blocking of AI data scrapers The tech company’s customers can automatically block A.I. companies from exploiting their websites, it said, as it moves to protect ...

Cloudflare (NET) will block AI crawlers accessing content without permission or compensation, by default.

On Tuesday, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced that it will block AI bots from scraping data from its sites without opt-in permission. Cloudflare hosts about 20 percent of the ...