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

July 2, 2025 at 5:23 a.m. PT iStock / Getty Images Plus The major internet Content Delivery Network (CDN), Cloudflare, has declared war on AI companies.

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

Cloudflare is blocking AI crawlers from scraping websites by default, starting July 2, 2025. With the new “Pay Per Crawl” initiative, website owners can now charge AI companies to access their ...

Those executives had spotted the early signs of a trend that has since become clear: artificial intelligence is transforming the way that people navigate the web. As users pose their queries to ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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

“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.

Big tech companies recently secured legal victories allowing free use of copyrighted content. This will reshape the internet in profound ways.

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