Cloudflare set a trap for Perplexity, and the AI startup crawled right into it. This has lessons for other AI companies ...

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

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

Google’s former SSP practices are the legal gift that keeps giving; Perplexity has been disregarding robots.txt files; and ...

Last month, a Pew Research Center report shed light on Google's AI Overviews' effect on web publishing. In short, the ...

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

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

Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure company, has accused AI startup Perplexity of secretly scraping data from ...

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

To test this, Cloudflare says it created new domains with similar restrictions against Perplexity’s AI scrapers. It found ...

Cloudflare admits that there’s nothing inherently wrong with how Google Fonts works, as such, given that it’s incredibly easy to incorporate royalty-free fonts with some basic HTML editing.

Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said the move was motivated by Google's future plans to charge for the use of the reCAPTCHA service, which would have "added millions of dollars in ...