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

Google is seeking to recruit news organizations for a new licensing project related to artificial intelligence, according to ...

Accessing pirate streaming sites in the UK just got a lot harder thanks to Cloudflare's country-wide block. This goes beyond ...

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

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 recently announced a new "pay-per-crawl" system aimed at pushing back against AI companies that continue to scrape the open web without paying a cent. According ...

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 content access.

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

A limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were impacted. We expect them to come back shortly. The core Cloudflare services were not impacted." ...

Cloudflare has launched a tool that blocks bot crawlers from accessing content without permission or compensation to help websites make money from AI firms trying to access and train on their content, ...

Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said the move was motivated by Google's future plans to charge for the use of the reCAPTCHA service, which would have "added millions of dollars in ...