Cloudflare sets deadline to block AI crawlers that bundle search with AI training Cloudflare gave AI crawlers a September deadline to separate the bots that gather content for search from those that harvest it for training or be blocked on pages that carry ads.The Cloudflare office in San Francisco in March 2025.Smith Collection / Gado via Getty ImagesJuly 1, 2026, 9:00 AM EDTCloudflare, a company that oversees much of the internet’s web traffic, is digging its heels in over AI web crawlers.Just...