Natallie Rocha / New York Times: Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data ScrapersWill Allen / Cloudflare: Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for accessPeter Hall / MIT Technology Review: Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients' websitesMatthew Prince / Cloudflare: Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNET: Cloudflare just changed the internet, and it's bad new for the AI giantsKate Knibbs / Wired: Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by DefaultAshley Belanger / Ars Technica: Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawlEmma Woollacott / Forbes: Cloudflare Sidesteps Copyright Issues, Blocking AI Scrapers By DefaultEmma Roth / The Verge: Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by defaultSteven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNET: Cloudflare declares war on AI crawlers - and the stakes couldn't be higherStuart Dredge / Music Ally: AI licensing update: Cloudflare crawling block and BandLabLaurie Sullivan / MediaPost: Cloudflare Confronts AI Content Scrapers With ‘402’ Pay CodeChris Vallance / BBC: Millions of websites to get ‘game-changing’ AI bot blockerAnkush Das / Analytics India Magazine: Cloudflare Just Became an Enemy of All AI CompaniesLaura Varley / Silicon Republic: Cloudflare gives creators more control over AI crawlersDenny Jacob / MarketWatch: Cloudflare Expands Effort to Block Website Scraping from AI CrawlersJess Kinghorn / PC Gamer: Cloudflare will block AI web crawlers by default, and introduces new Pay Per Crawl scheme that means AI companies will have to fork out for the privilege to scrapeRohit Singh / MEDIANAMA: Cloudflare Rolls Out Permission-Based Web Scraping For AI ModelsStrictlyVC: xAI raises $10 billion, Figma files to go public, and engineering the perfect brownieDavid Hollingworth / Cyber Daily: Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers from accessing site contentRoss Kelly / ITPro: Cloudflare says AI companies have been “scraping content without limits” - now it's letting website owners block crawlers and force them to payNathan Jolly / Mumbrella: ‘Pay per crawl’: Major publishers back Cloudflare's plan to charge AI companiesBusiness Wire: Cloudflare Just Changed How AI Crawlers Scrape the Internet-at-Large; Permission-Based Approach Makes Way for A New Business ModelKrystal Hu / Reuters: Cloudflare launches tool to help website owners monetize AI bot crawler accessLarry Dignan / Constellation Research: Cloudflare's pay per crawl system takes aim at AI crawler freebiesDjohnson / CyberScoop: Cloudflare rolls out ‘pay-per-crawl’ feature to constrain AI's limitless hunger for dataThomas Claburn / The Register: Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishersMarkus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer: Cloudflare Launches Pay Per Crawl, Letting Publishers Charge AI for ContentJin-Hee Lee / Cloudflare: Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare's managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized contentAlex Scroxton / ComputerWeekly.com: Cloudflare to let customers block AI web crawlersCatherine Perloff / The Information: Cloudflare To Block AI Crawlers by Default on WebsitesMatthias Bastian / The Decoder: Cloudflare aims to save the World Wide Web by blocking AI crawlers without explicit consentPYMNTS.com: Cloudflare Debuts Bot Blocker to Help ‘Internet Survive Age of AI’Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: Could Cloudflare's “pay per crawl” save news from AI?Tim Marcin / Mashable: Cloudflare launches way to charge AI bots for crawling sitesAndrew Griffin / The Independent: Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare ‘changes the rules of the internet’ by blocking AI crawlersRashmi Ramesh / DataBreachToday.com: Cloudflare Aims to Make AI Bots Pay for Crawling WebsitesConstantine von Hoffman / MarTech: Cloudflare rolls out a way for sites to charge AI crawlers for accessAlex Wilhelm / Cautious Optimism: Internet Independence Day — Welcome to Cautious Optimism, a newsletter on tech, business, and power.Emily Forlini / PCMag: Cloudflare to Block AI Crawlers From Scraping Websites Unless They PayRosalia Ozibo / Nairametrics: Cloudflare to block AI bots from scraping website content, launches pay-per-crawl model for web accessAlistair Barr / Business Insider: Cloudflare to block AI bot crawlers by default and let websites demand payment for access, Financial Times: Sources: Sweden-based AI-powered app builder Lovable is set to raise $150M+ led by Accel at a ~$1.8B valuation, as investors rush to back “vibe coding” startups, Accel, the storied venture firm that invested early in Facebook and Slack, is set to lead a new funding round in the Swedish “vibe coding” startup Lovable at a valuation of at least $1.5 billion, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal..