Cloudflare gives AI firms until Sept 15 to separate crawlers or face blocks

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Cloudflare has issued a deadline of September 15 for AI companies to distinguish between web crawlers used for search indexing and those used for AI training or agents. Publishers using Cloudflare's platform will be able to block AI crawlers by default if companies fail to comply. The move is designed to give content publishers greater control over how their work is used by AI firms. Cloudflare's policy effectively pressures AI companies to negotiate and pay for access to publisher content rather than scraping it freely.

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