Meta's Joel Kaplan announced the company will not sign the EU's voluntary AI Code of Practice, calling its guidelines an overreach that risks stifling AI innovation and deployment in Europe. Kaplan warned the Code's broad requirements create legal uncerta...

Cloudflare, powering 20% of the web, has blocked AI crawlers by default and launched Pay Per Crawl, forcing AI companies to pay for content access. This move empowers publishers, ends free scraping, and reshapes the future of the open internet and AI cont...