Creators get new say over AI scraping through Cloudflare–beehiiv partnership
Companies say the collaboration enables newsletter publishers to manage AI bot traffic, improve visibility in AI-powered search tools and protect archives

Companies say the collaboration enables newsletter publishers to manage AI bot traffic, improve visibility in AI-powered search tools and protect archives

For the first time, bots account for more web traffic than humans, according to Cloudflare data.

The same companies building AI products that strip publishers of traffic are now writing the rules for AI licensing.

Cloudflare launched a feature that automatically converts HTML pages to markdown when AI agents request them, potentially changing how newsrooms publish content for AI-powered search and discovery.
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