The specification includes an XML vocabulary for describing content usage, licensing, and legal terms of service. The RSL ...

An open licensing standard that aims to make AI companies pay for the content they vacuum up across the web is now an official specification. Really Simple Licensing 1.0 — or RSL for short — gives ...

Google sees 3.2x more webpages than OpenAI. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wants Google to separate search crawling from AI ...

The war over who controls internet content just hit a new milestone. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced that his company ...

Tollbit, a biz that aims to help publishers monetize AI traffic through access fees for crawlers, said in its Q2 2025 report ...

BetterFish uses a Flask orchestrator and an LLM-moderated forum to score sentiment and hotness, giving you clearer context ...

As a new group of publishers inks a deal with Meta, can Cloudflare's 'pay per crawl' program offer some recourse and revenue ...

Greg Zakowicz, a digital marketing consultant, utilizes Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant, to track a product's price history and help evaluate whether a sale is actually a worthwhile deal. In ...

In Bloomberg’s gift-for-mom experiment, Amazon’s Rufus was the only bot that tried to learn more before answering. It asked ...

New artificial intelligence shopping tools are sprouting right and left just in time for the holidays, when US consumers are expected to spend a record $253 billion online. Technology companies and ...

In recent months, some websites have become increasingly concerned about an influx of traffic from what they suspect are ...

The New York Times has opened a high-stakes legal front against Perplexity, accusing the fast-growing AI search startup of ...