Cloudflare set a trap for Perplexity, and the AI startup crawled right into it. This has lessons for other AI companies ...

Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.

In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn't a simple ...

Google’s former SSP practices are the legal gift that keeps giving; Perplexity has been disregarding robots.txt files; and ...

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to ...

Perplexity, an AI search startup, faces allegations from Cloudflare of using deceptive tactics to bypass website restrictions ...

AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content ...

Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure company, has accused AI startup Perplexity of secretly scraping data from ...

To test this, Cloudflare says it created new domains with similar restrictions against Perplexity’s AI scrapers. It found ...

Internet security giant Cloudfare says Perplexity deployed "stealth crawlers" to evade restrictions and scrape content from ...

According to a Cloudflare report, Perplexity is evading website network blocks to gain access to data without the ...

Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said the move was motivated by Google's future plans to charge for the use of the reCAPTCHA service, which would have "added millions of dollars in ...