fastcompany

2025-07-30

How Cloudflare declared war on AI scrapers

CEO Matthew Prince unveils powerful new tools to block AI companies from freely scraping web content, a move that could redefine how publishers, platforms, and AI firms coexist on the internet.

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2025-07-01

Cloudflare experiment will block AI bot scrapers unless they pay a fee

Cloudflare has rolled out a couple of new measures meant to keep AI bot crawlers at bay. To start with, every new domain customer that signs up with the company to manage their website traffic will no [...]

Match Score: 109.66

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2025-11-19

Cloudflare outage was not caused by a cyber attack

Cloudflare wrongly suspected that the widespread outage that took numerous websites offline on November 18 was caused by a DDoS attack, the company’s CEO has admitted. In his blog post that breaks d [...]

Match Score: 75.66

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2025-03-14

God of War's 20th anniversary celebration gives you Kratos' most badass throwback skin

Sony is celebrating God of War's 20th anniversary with goodies found in digital Norse mythological worlds, an LA art studio and your dusty old record player. The highlight is Kratos' positiv [...]

Match Score: 70.99

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2025-06-20

Cloudflare CEO says people aren't checking AI chatbots' source links

Companies that develop generative AI always make it a point to say that they include links to websites in the answers that their chatbots generate for users. But Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has reve [...]

Match Score: 64.49

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2025-08-04

Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appe [...]

Match Score: 47.18

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2025-05-06

Gears of War is coming to PlayStation for the first time on August 26

Yet another high-profile Xbox franchise is making the leap to PlayStation. While Halo isn't yet making the transition, Gears of War is about to join the likes of Forza Horizon 5 in crossing the [...]

Match Score: 45.18

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2025-12-02

Amazon's 'God of War' adaptation gets a two-season order

After a few years — and a few shakeups — it looks like Amazon's God of War series is finally full speed ahead. The video game adaptation is now in pre-production in Vancouver and has been bum [...]

Match Score: 38.72

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2025-09-10

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and more are adopting a new licensing standard to get compensated for AI scraping

With web publishers in crisis, a new open standard lets them set the ground rules for AI scrapers. (Or, at least it will try.) The new Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard creates terms that partici [...]

Match Score: 31.24

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2025-11-18

Cloudflare hit by outage causing 'widespread' errors

If you're experiencing internet issues this morning, you're far from alone. Infrastructure company Cloudflare has been hit with what it calls "widespread 500 errors, [with] Dashboard an [...]

Match Score: 30.02