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• 1. 🚫 Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers
• 2. ✅ Invest in this pre-IPO with Mode Mobile
• 3. 💳 How Stripe boosted fraud detection from 59% to 97% with AI
• 4. 🤖 Build bespoke chatbots with ChatNode
• 5. ⚖️ Senate rejects AI regulation ban
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 7. 🤖 Amazon’s AI runs the floor
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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Cloudflare Blocks AI Crawlers

🚨 Our Report

Cloudflare announced it will block AI web crawlers by default for first-time customers to prevent unauthorized content scraping. The company is also introducing a "Pay Per Crawl" program, allowing publishers to charge AI companies for rights to their content.

🔓 Key Points

The internet infrastructure provider will prompt incoming domain owners to decide whether to allow AI scrapers, with blocking enabled by default, and can identify and restrict crawlers that don’t respect robots.txt files.
Cloudflare’s Pay Per Crawl program lets publishers set specific pricing for AI companies to retrieve their content, though it’s available to a select group of leading publishers and content creators.
Major publishers, including The Associated Press, The Atlantic, Fortune, Stack Overflow, and Quora, are backing these restrictions, as Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince noted, "People trust the AI more over the last six months, which means they're not reading original content."

🔐 Relevance

Publishers have seized control in the AI ecosystem. As chatbots increasingly replace traditional web search tools, this shift clarifies who owns content and how it can be used. It sets a standard for fair compensation between creators and AI developers. The ripple effects will touch everything from how future AI models train to what information they may retrieve.

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The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly voted to strike a controversial provision from a budget bill that would have blocked states from regulating artificial intelligence for ten years.
The "AI moratorium," introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, was backed by figures like OpenAI’s Sam Altman and a16z’s Marc Andreessen to prevent a "patchwork of regulation" they claimed could stifle innovation.
A bipartisan group of senators argued the ban would harm consumers and allow AI companies to operate with little oversight. The effort to repeal it was led by an amendment from Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Sen. Maria Cantwell.
After an initial compromise to shorten the ban to five years fell apart, the Senate voted 99-1 to strip the provision from the bill completely.

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Amazon is debuting a new generative AI model called DeepFleet, designed to make its robotic fleet faster, smarter, and more efficient.
DeepFleet improves robot travel efficiency by 10% by coordinating movement across fulfillment centers, reducing congestion, and speeding up order processing.
The company currently operates over 1,000,000 robots, including Hercules, Pegasus, and Proteus models, which handle heavy lifting and repetitive tasks while working alongside human employees.
The technology represents Amazon's practical approach to AI innovation, focusing on solving real problems with tangible benefits: faster delivery times, lower operational expenses, and reduced energy usage.

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