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The Cloudflare Blog: AI Week 2025: Recap

Sep 3, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-week-2025-wrapup/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: AI Week 2025: Recap Feedly Summary: How do we embrace the power of AI without losing control? That was one of our big themes for AI Week 2025. Check out all of the products, partnerships, and features we announced. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text…

Slashdot: Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data?

Aug 31, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/31/1820249/are-ai-web-crawlers-destroying-websites-in-their-hunt-for-training-data Source: Slashdot Title: Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the adverse effects of AI web crawlers on website performance, highlighting the increasing web traffic attributed to these bots. It addresses the challenges website owners face…

The Register: AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content

Aug 29, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/ai_web_crawlers_are_destroying/ Source: The Register Title: AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content Feedly Summary: But the cure may ruin the web…. With AI’s rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language…

The Cloudflare Blog: The age of agents: cryptographically recognizing agent traffic

Aug 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/signed-agents/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: The age of agents: cryptographically recognizing agent traffic Feedly Summary: Cloudflare now lets websites and bot creators use Web Bot Auth to segment agents from verified bots, making it easier for customers to allow or disallow the many types of user and partner directed AI Summary and…

The Cloudflare Blog: A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry

Aug 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-crawler-traffic-by-purpose-and-industry/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry Feedly Summary: We are extending AI-related insights on Cloudflare Radar with new industry-focused data and a breakdown of bot traffic by purpose, such as training or user action. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

The Register: AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders

Aug 21, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/ai_crawler_traffic/ Source: The Register Title: AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders Feedly Summary: One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute Cloud services giant Fastly has released a report claiming AI crawlers are putting a heavy load on the open…

The Cloudflare Blog: Announcing the Cloudflare Browser Developer Program

Aug 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-the-cloudflare-browser-developer-program/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Announcing the Cloudflare Browser Developer Program Feedly Summary: Announcing the Browser Developer Program: Cloudflare’s new collaborative program to help shape Cloudflare challenges that work seamlessly with your browser. Join us today! AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Cloudflare has launched its Browser Developer Program to foster collaboration…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-user-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent Feedly Summary: I was exploring how ChatGPT agent works today. I learned some interesting things about how it exposes its identity through HTTP headers, then made a huge blunder in thinking it was leaking its URLs to Bingbot and Yandex… but it turned out…

Wired: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Is Haunting My Browser

Jul 22, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/browser-haunted-by-ai-agents/ Source: Wired Title: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Is Haunting My Browser Feedly Summary: New tools from OpenAI and Perplexity can browse the web for you. If the idea takes off, these generative AI agents could turn the internet into a ghost town where only bots roam. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

The Cloudflare Blog: Message Signatures are now part of our Verified Bots Program, simplifying bot authentication

Jul 1, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/verified-bots-with-cryptography/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Message Signatures are now part of our Verified Bots Program, simplifying bot authentication Feedly Summary: Bots can start authenticating to Cloudflare using public key cryptography, preventing them from being spoofed and allowing origins to have confidence in their identity. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text…

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