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

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

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

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

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation ...

Responding to Cloudflare's analysis and testing, Perplexity declared that analysis was technically flawed and that it ...

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

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to ...

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

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

AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content ...

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