Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

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• Free Analysis Rule Based Analysis not AI PAY Bearish 60% 6h
  Generated → 6h → Excluded

  Expired: not evaluated within 7 days of its 6h timeframe elapsing

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Original source

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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Original article published by TechCrunch on July 1, 2026. Analysis and insights provided by AnalystMarkets AI.

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