Cloudflare will let publishers distinguish search bots from AI agents and training crawlers, blocking or charging the latter under some settings. That may restore leverage to creators whose work is extracted without compensation. It also gives one infrastructure company greater power to decide how machines access the web. Necessary correction, new concentration of power. #DigitalRights #AI https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/cloudflares-new-policy-pushes-ai-companies-to-pay-for-publishers-content/