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

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

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

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

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

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

Perplexity defends its AI assistants against Cloudflare's claims, arguing that they are not web crawlers but user-triggered ...

In April, Perplexity was identified among Anthropic, Deepseek and Tiktok as one of many vendors driving regular surges in ...

Cloudflare has now exposed several secret details about Perplexity's crawling practices, alleging that the AI company uses ...

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

Cloudflare has accused Perplexity AI of using stealth crawlers that bypass robots.txt and network blocks to access data ...

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