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Cloudflare begins blocking AI bots by default on millions of websites

Cloudflare began enforcing new default rules on Tuesday that automatically block AI training and agent bots on millions of websites, marking one of the largest shifts yet in how publishers manage their relationship with the AI industry.

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Cloudflare says AI agents now generate 60% of its traffic

Traffic generated by artificial intelligence agents on Cloudflare's network has surged more than 1,700% over the past year, now accounting for roughly 60% of total traffic, the company's Asia-Pacific leadership disclosed Tuesday at a media briefing in Seoul.

Google tests global AI opt-out for publishers after UK order and Cloudflare ultimatum

Google Alphabet Inc. is confronting a growing revolt from publishers, regulators, and infrastructure providers over its practice of using a single web crawler to serve both traditional search and its AI products — a strategy critics say gives the company…

Bot traffic overtakes humans on Cloudflare’s network

Non-human internet traffic has officially surpassed human activity on Cloudflare's network, the company revealed during its second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, with executives predicting that machine-generated packets could exceed human traffic by a factor of 1,000 within five years.

Cloudflare releases Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents instead of humans

Cloudflare on Wednesday released Kitesurf, a web browser built from scratch for AI agents rather than humans, running entirely in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers with no Chromium underneath. The browser is available free while in beta through the company's…

Cloudflare open-sources its AI agent workspace for any organization to deploy

Cloudflare on Wednesday released Cloudflare OS, an open-source AI workspace designed to give every enterprise employee access to AI agents, internal company tools, and custom micro-applications through a browser — without requiring developer expertise.

WordPress patches critical flaw letting anyone hijack sites

WordPress released emergency security updates on Friday, closing a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability that allows an anonymous attacker to take full control of any default WordPress installation with a single HTTP request.

Cloudflare outage knocks X, Reddit, Zoom offline worldwide

A widespread internet disruption rippled across some of the world's most-used platforms on Monday, June 22, after Cloudflare, the infrastructure provider whose network carries roughly 20 percent of global web traffic, reported increased error rates and latency across multiple services.