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 ...

Perplexity has said it wants to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion, despite Perplexity's value being considerably less than what it offered.

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

Cloudflare is accusing the AI-powered answer engine Perplexity of using "stealth crawling behavior" to scrape content from ...

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

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

Perplexity says AI tools are different from traditional web searches, while Cloudflare points to obfuscation in forcing access to data even when websites say not to ...

The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, ...

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

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