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

During the quarter, network capex represented 17% of revenue, especially as Cloudflare expands the capabilities of their network servers to manage the deployment and execution of growing AI workloads.

Every new domain customer that signs up with Cloudflare to manage their website traffic will now be asked if they want to allow AI crawlers or to block them altogether.

Cloudflare says that it has partnered with several AI firms willing to participate in what should be a mutually beneficial arrangement – assuming they agree to pay the prices set by publishers.

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 to ...

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 ...

The permission-based model announced today blocks AI scrapers from accessing content across millions of websites that Cloudflare protects -- about 24% of all sites across the internet.

Salesforce and Slack surveyed 5,000 desk workers across the globe and found daily AI usage has more than doubled in the past six months.

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

Website bots could help publishers fight off traffic loss from AI crawling Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare is blocking AI crawlers by default.

As AI barrels into the workplace, job search firms like Indeed and Glassdoor are replacing workers with the technology.