Unnerved by AI-powered bots able to extract data from websites at tremendous speeds, companies are considering a new tactic startling to some: allow scraping for a fee. Online platforms TollBit and ...

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, ...

Block Inc. gained 9% in pre-market trading following its S&P 500 inclusion announcement. While the fintech company presents a mixed investment profile with strong balance sheet metrics offset by ...

While scrolling through social media, you've probably seen countless "Congratulations, you've won an iPad!" scams that lead nowhere, but there is one avenue that more and more people are beginning to ...

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Big if True: Cloudflare is taking steps to combat unregulated data scraping carried out by AI crawlers. However, the company's CEO says meaningful progress will also require cooperation from major AI ...

Turkey’s Capital Markets Board, the country’s financial regulator, announced it had blocked access to websites “providing unauthorized crypto asset services.” In a Thursday notice, the Capital Markets ...

Millions of websites, including Sky News, The Associated Press and Buzzfeed, will now be able to block artificial intelligence (AI) bots from accessing information they publish on their pages, the BBC ...

Cloudflare will block Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default. Cloudflare's Pay Per Crawl lets creators charge AI giants for content access. The moves address concerns about Big Tech exploiting content ...

As publishers grapple with declining traffic thanks to AI, Cloudflare changes the default to 'block AI crawlers unless they pay creators' via a new system it's calling 'pay per crawl.' Cloudflare has ...

The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can access their sites. The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced ...