Wednesday, 5 August 2026

You're invited to Cloudflare Connect 2026

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Cloudflare Connect 2026

Join thousands of developers, architects, and security leaders from October 19-21 at Moscone West in San Francisco for our biggest Connect yet. A place for you to learn, network, and meet the team powering over 20% of the web. All in one room.

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Hands-on technical sessions from the teams building at Cloudflare.

A front-row seat to what's shipping next. And, real conversations with

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Whether you're building on Workers, securing your network,

or figuring out where AI agents fit - you'll leave with a playbook

you can put into production immediately.

Peter Steinberger, Founder, OpenClaw; Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Evan You, Founder, VoidZero

Jonas Bengtson, Director of Engineering, Audio/Video at Discord

Raphaƫl Beamonte, Head of Production Engineering at Ramp

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Thursday, 2 July 2026

New updates to your AI bot controls.

We're writing to tell you about important upcoming changes to your default AI bot settings ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏We're writing to tell you about important upcoming changes to your default AI bot settings ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­  

AI Bot Controls

New updates to your AI bot controls

Matt Silverlock

VP, Cloudflare

Hi,


About a year ago, we launched "Content Independence Day" and introduced a simple way to block AI bots from scraping your sites without your explicit permission.


Today we're writing to tell you about important upcoming changes to your default AI bot settings that give you more control and flexibility and that take into account your feedback on how you want to manage your traffic and protect your content as the AI landscape evolves. 


What’s changing?

  • Smarter classifications: We’re refining how we categorize AI bots so you can better choose who can access your content.

  • Updated defaults (September 15): We will adjust our default settings to automatically block certain AI crawlers that do not distinguish their intent.

  • New controls: You are always in the driver's seat. You can easily customize these settings or opt out entirely to keep things exactly as they are.

If you'd like an early look at the updates or want to learn how to adjust your preferences now, check out our latest blog post.


What do you need to do?


No action is needed today.


However, if you want to opt-out of the new defaults before they go into effect on September 15, 2026, you can opt-out in your Security settings. Refer to our documentation on what controls are available and how they work.


Thank you for being a part of the Cloudflare network and helping us build a better Internet!


Best regards,

The Cloudflare Team

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