Cloudflare is accusing Perplexity of using stealth crawlers to bypass site restrictions, triggering fresh concerns over how ...

At the time, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas blamed the activity on third-party crawlers used by the site. Now, Cloudflare, ...

The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, ...

Cloudflare's CEO is ruffling feathers in Silicon Valley by blocking AI bots and pushing tech giants such as Google to finally ...

Cloudflare’s recent allegations against Perplexity have sparked a debate about the wave of bots and AI agents flooding the ...

First, Cloudflare accused the AI company of bypassing no-crawl directives. Now Perplexity says Cloudflare has it all wrong.

Instead, the AI firm claims Cloudflare confused Perplexity requests with unrelated traffic from BrowserBase, a third-party ...

In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn't a simple ...

Cloudflare has since removed Perplexity's bots from its list of verified bots and implemented new AI-blocking techniques.

Local newspapers have an intriguing new ally in their quest to get paid by AI firms hoovering their stories and putting their future at risk.

In June, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince shared internal data showing that search referral rates have been falling, with a ...

Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.