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PublishedJuly 1, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content
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Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.
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