The open web is closing down for unwanted automated traffic A growing number of websites are taking steps to ban AI bot traffic so that their work isn't used as training data and their servers aren't ...

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says in a new interview with Wired that the company has blocked more than 416 billion AI bot requests since July 1, 2025. It’s all part of the company’s initiative to ...

It should come as no surprise that other businesses besides publishing are beset by AI bots scraping their sites. But media organizations are most likely to block the offenders, judging by a study ...

Cloudflare announced that they delisted Perplexity’s crawler as a verified bot and are now actively blocking Perplexity and all of its stealth bots from crawling websites. Cloudflare acted in response ...