Cloudy with a chance of revenue
By charging AI companies when content is actually used, Cloudflare hopes to build a more sustainable business model for the open web.
Happy July Fourth weekend. Before the fireworks start, there is a fitting piece of independence-minded news out of Cloudflare, which this week again picked Canada Day to shake up how AI companies treat the open web. A year after it began letting sites block AI crawlers by default, the company is now testing a way for publishers to charge bots not just f…

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