Cloudflare data shows the top AI labs are strip-mining the web, and it's getting worse not better.

Create a no-code AI researcher with two research modes and verifiable links, so you get quick answers and deeper findings ...

Breaking into 4 independent services means: Scale each based on actual need (crawler needs 10 instances, matcher needs 2) Test one piece at a time (ship faster, iterate publicly) Different tech ...

Googlebot once again generated more traffic than any other crawler in 2025, according to a new Cloudflare report. It outpaced every search and AI bot as Google continued crawling the web for search ...

Internet traffic is up 19% in 2025, according to Cloudflare Radar. Meanwhile, ChatGPT is the most-blocked service on the internet. But .Christmas is the most dangerous domain on the planet for spam ...

Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold. By Alexandra Alter Alexandra Alter ...

Firecrawl’s co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer knew the exact moment he found the investor to lead his Series A. He was in a coffee meeting with Nexus Venture Partner’s Abhishek Sharma at the Blue Bottle ...

The Internet Archive can now only crawl Reddit's homepage. Reddit's goal is to block AI firms from scraping Reddit user data. Publishers (and others) are suing AI companies for copyright infringement.

A surprise guest of the creepy crawly variety made an appearance at Jennifer Lopez's latest concert in Kazakhstan. Video circulating online shows a cricket crawling on the "Let's Get Loud" singer's ...

If any AI company were to face allegations of using deceptive web crawling tactics to access website content, few would have expected Perplexity. With its $150 million annual recurring revenue, one ...

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler ...