Google And Shopify Back Cloudflare’s AI Bot Gatekeeping Initiative

Google, Shopify, and browser makers are backing a new Cloudflare PACT protocol for AI agent trust "on Cloudflare's network" ...
The Next Web

Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on a privacy-first anti-bot protocol

Cloudflare, Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft are developing PACT, a privacy-preserving protocol to verify legitimate web traffic without tracking users.
Ars Technica

Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike

A Cloudflare outage caused large chunks of the Internet to go dark Tuesday morning, temporarily impacting big platforms like X and ChatGPT. “A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is ...
Ars Technica

Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

On Wednesday, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare announced a new feature called “AI Labyrinth” that aims to combat unauthorized AI data scraping by serving fake AI-generated content to bots. The ...