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.

X (Twitter) is introducing a AI bots capable of writing Community Notes, those helpful fact-checking or context notes you sometimes see on posts.

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

Internet firm Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers to prevent them from "accessing content without permission or compensation," by default according to an announcement on Tuesday.

Cloudflare has announced that it will now block AI web crawlers by default for new customers. It’s also introducing a new “Pay Per Crawl” fee that will let some publishers make AI companies ...

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?

AI has the ability to impact numerous areas of the public sector, from government to education, tech officials said during the yearly Link Oregon meeting. They are preparing for its possibilities ...