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Cloudflare has alleged that AI startup Perplexity is using deceptive methods to scrape content from websites that have explicitly opted out via robots.txt. Despite Perplexity's denial, Cloudflare claims the company is disguising its bot activity to bypass restrictions. 

Cloudflare to block AI crawlers by default, introduces ‘Pay Per Crawl’ for publishers

With the new policy, all new websites onboarded to Cloudflare will automatically block known AI bots — even those that don’t respect robots.txt protocols.

Employee records herself getting fired, CEO says video is ‘painful’ to watch

Brittany Pietsch, a recently-hired accounts executive at Cloudflare, recorded herself getting fired. Her video has gone viral, with even the CEO of Cloudflare responding to it.

Weekly Numerics | Surge in food prices propel retail inflation, desktops gain ground, & air pollution funds languish

Retail inflation in November reached a 3-month high on the back of rising food prices. Meanwhile, FASTag appears to be on the right lane, with toll collection seeing steady growth. Data from Cloudflare shows that the share of Indians using desktops to get online is rising

‘Even DownDetector is down’: Users vent after Cloudflare outage knocks popular websites offline

Zerodha, Discord, DoorDash and Canva are among the several websites facing an outage due to a Cloudflare issue which began about 20 minutes ago.

Cloudflare calls out Amazon Web Services on its pricing, says the company keeps it artificially inflated

Content Delivery Network Cloudflare slams Amazon Web Services