Publishers are stepping up efforts to protect their websites from tech companies that hoover up content for new AI tools. The media companies have sued, forged licensing deals to be compensated for ...

Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest internet infrastructure providers, has begun blocking AI web crawlers by default unless they receive direct permission from site owners. This new policy changes ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

Internet firm Cloudflare will start blocking artificial intelligence crawlers from accessing content without website owners' permission or compensation by default, in a move that could significantly ...

A clash between established online content providers and artificial intelligence upstarts is heating up again as AI-driven large language models gobble information in a race to dominate the web’s ...

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...

News publishers are actively fighting back against unauthorized AI web scraping, abandoning polite requests for aggressive technical defenses. Companies are deploying cyber tactics like AI Tarpits and ...

Raptive is protecting its 6,000+ creator network by implementing an initiative to prevent AI crawlers from scraping independent publishers' content on the open web The new "Terms of Content Use" ...

How did OpenClaw become botnet infrastructure so quickly? DataDome analyzes the hijacked AI agents scraping sites at scale ...