The specification includes an XML vocabulary for describing content usage, licensing, and legal terms of service. The RSL ...

A new standard to protect content on the internet. RSL is supported by players such as publishers and the advertising ...

Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers exploding, publishers blocking bots, and many platforms sending little traffic back.

Internet traffic is up, and so are bots — they make up 56.5% of that traffic. But not everyone wants all the bots to see what ...

An open licensing standard that aims to make AI companies pay for the content they vacuum up across the web is now an official specification. Really Simple Licensing 1.0 — or RSL for short — gives ...

Cloudflare's Year in Review shows Googlebot crawled 200 times more pages than PerplexityBot. Global Internet traffic grew 19% ...

ChatGPT maker OpenAI successfully won a stay of discovery concerning newer models of ChatGPT that post-date the versions already involved in the broad multi-district litigation underway in Manhattan ...

Cloudflare’s 2025 Radar Year in Review outlines how global internet traffic grew sharply, AI crawlers reshaped the web, ...

If journalism is nothing more than a new information harvesting exercise for systems that transform that harvest into this product called 'customized content,' what becomes of its soul and its mission ...

The open web is closing down for unwanted automated traffic A growing number of websites are taking steps to ban AI bot traffic so that their work isn't used as training data and their servers aren't ...