News publishers are building fences around their content in an effort to cut off crawlers that don’t pay for content.

Millions of websites will now be able to block artificial intelligence (AI) bots from accessing information they publish on their pages.

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

The news: The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has announced that it will start blocking AI bots from visiting websites it hosts by default. What bots?

These AI systems are already endangering public health — offering false assurances, bad advice and fake credentials — while hiding behind regulatory loopholes.

These AI systems are already endangering public health — offering false assurances, bad advice and fake credentials — while hiding behind regulatory loopholes.

This AI Bot Is Replacing Google for Millions of People AI bots are devouring the internet’s content faster than ever, and most sites don’t even realize it’s happening.

Wikimedia has pulled back its AI Summaries feature for Wikipedia after editors call against it.

People are replacing Google search with artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, a major shift that has unleashed a new kind of bot loose on the web. To offer users a tidy AI summary instead of ...