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- Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
Cloudflare, with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing its default so that AI crawlers are blocked unless they pay creators for their content, a change the article says takes effect July 1, which it calls Content Independence Day. The article argues that the traditional search-driven deal, in which Google copied content in exchange for traffic, has broken down as AI answers replace clicks. It states that content creators now face 750 times more difficulty getting traffic from OpenAI and 30,000 times more difficulty from Anthropic than from the older Google, compared with the roughly tenfold drop attributed to Google's own changes. Cloudflare says it will next build a marketplace and score content by how much it fills gaps in AI engines' knowledge rather than by traffic.
- Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet
Cloudflare has announced Cloudflare Wallets, a programmable wallet designed to let AI agents pay for and try APIs and content without human setup. Account Wallets are for human owners, who can fund them and delegate spending to Virtual Wallets managed by agents, with guardrails such as an allowance, an allow list and a maximum transaction size. Cloudflare says users can claim a wallet handle now, while paying for APIs and content is coming soon, and the wallets will use stablecoin micropayments via the x402 protocol. The company also links wallets to cloudflare.pay identities, so agents can optionally declare which organization they act for.
- You don’t need quantum hardware for post-quantum security
Cloudflare argues that organizations do not need quantum hardware to prepare for quantum computing threats, because post-quantum cryptography (PQC) runs on existing phones, laptops and servers and protects against quantum adversaries. The article says quantum key distribution (QKD) and quantum random number generation (QRNG) are neither necessary nor sufficient for security in the quantum age. It states that QKD does not operate at Internet scale because it requires direct physical links between parties and lacks authentication, while NIST launched a standardization competition in 2016 that produced several PQC standards published in 2024.
- Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers, crawlers with single click
Cloudflare has launched a one-click option, available to all customers including free-tier users, to block all AI bots, which it says is meant to help content creators keep control over their content. The company says Bytespider, Amazonbot, ClaudeBot and GPTBot were the top four AI crawlers by request volume on its network. It also reports that in June, AI bots accessed about 39% of the top one million Internet properties using Cloudflare, but only 2.98% of those properties blocked or challenged them. Cloudflare says its machine learning models still scored a spoofed-user-agent bot as likely automated, with scores of 9 or less.
- Cloudflare’s public IPFS gateways and supporting Interplanetary Shipyard
Cloudflare announced it will transition traffic from its public IPFS gateway to the IPFS Foundation's gateway, maintained by the Interplanetary Shipyard ("Shipyard") team, starting May 14, 2024. Traffic using the cloudflare-ipfs.com or cf-ipfs.com hostnames will keep working and redirect to ipfs.io or dweb.link until August 14, 2024, after which users must switch to ipfs.io or dweb.link to avoid service interruption. Cloudflare says the transition will boost ecosystem collaboration, increase protocol resiliency, and ensure healthy stewardship and governance, and that it will continue sponsoring Shipyard's work as a gateway steward. The post also states that the change does not alter the amount or type of end-user information visible to Cloudflare, the IPFS Foundation, or Shipyard.
- Resilient Internet connectivity in Europe mitigates impact from cable cuts
Cloudflare Radar reports that two Baltic Sea submarine cable cuts in November 2024 had little to no observable impact on connectivity in the affected countries, largely because of European network redundancy. The BCS East-West Interlink, connecting Sventoji, Lithuania and Katthammarsvik, Sweden, was reportedly damaged on November 17, 2024, around 08:00 UTC; Telia Lietuva's CTO said the cable carried about a third of Lithuania's Internet capacity, but that capacity was carried via other routes. The C-Lion1 cable, linking Helsinki, Finland and Rostock, Germany, stopped working at about 02:00 UTC on November 18, according to its owner Cinia. In Finland, median bandwidth rose and latency fell around that time, but the shifts began before the cut and recovered quickly, so the article considers them unlikely to be related.