Cloudflare is giving site owners a way to stay discoverable while disallowing AI training. New controls and an Accountable designation establish a shared model with Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content
Cloudflare is making it easier for publishers and content creators of all sizes to prevent their content from being scraped for AI training by managing robots.txt on their behalf, and allowing targeted blocking of AI crawling on sites that serve ads.
Cloudflare、検索を許可しながらAI学習を拒否する「Disallow AI Training」を発表 | gihyo.jp
Cloudflareは2026年9月15日、Webサイトの検索インデックスへの登録を維持しながら、コンテンツのAI学習への利用を拒否する設定「Disallow AI Training」を発表した。
Cloudflare and OpenAI: making AI discovery better for everyone
How Cloudflare and OpenAI are working together to help AI find useful content, keep up with changes, and make fewer wasted requests – making the experience better for users and website owners alike.
Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.
How to Opt Out of AI Tools or Training Made by Big Tech
It seems like every software or website update brings new AI features. Some people find these features useful and immediately integrate them into their work. Others find them annoying or in the way.
healsdata/ai-training-opt-out
Known tags and settings suggested to opt out of having your content used for AI training.
Cloudflare gives AI agents an identity and a wallet | Cloudflare
New tools mean businesses will be able to see who's behind an AI agent, and those agents will be able to pay for things safely on their owner's behalf.
Cloudflare OS Review: The Security-First AI Workspace That Wants to Be Your Company's Operating System
Cloudflare OS is not a traditional computer operating system. It is an AI productivity environment—an "operating system for the company"—that originally ran inside Cloudflare's own walls before being open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 licence in August 2026. The project emerged from a real internal need:
Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search
Changes to Search have sent ripples across the media industry.
Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
How Cloudflare uses generative AI to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives.
Firms like Meta and A16z admit having to pay billions for training data would ruin their generative-AI plans as they fight new copyright rules
Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Andreessen Horowitz are trying to keep AI developers from having to pay for copyrighted material used in AI training.
There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet
“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.
Google must let publishers opt out of AI Search features, rules UK
Rejoice, website owners.
Cloudflare Workers AI | Open-source AI inference
Workers AI facilitates the scalable development & deployment of AI applications at the edge.
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net
One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides “what is taking up all my cloud storage?”) is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don’t want it. I’m going to make a handout that explains how to do some of the basic AI-removal or AI-avoidance things. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe you like AI and find it useful? That’s fine, this document is probably not for you. Additions/edits welcome. Leave a comment or drop me an email.
AI Mode is obviously the future of Google Search
The internet’s biggest search engine is going to be unrecognizable in just a few years.
