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AI bots, including ChatGPT-User, are accessing forbidden web pages despite robots.txt rules. OpenAI justifies this as us...

Saeed Ashif Ahmed

August 17, 2026

OpenAI argues robots.txt rules may not apply to ChatGPT’s fetch bot for user-initiated requests, leading to widespread d...

Palumbo Angela

August 14, 2026

Cloudflare and AWS introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots using HTTP 402, empowering publishers to control and monetize con...

Saeed Ashif Ahmed

July 25, 2026

Ahrefs data reveals 97% of llms.txt files receive no requests, with AI retrieval bots making up only 1% of traffic, chal...

Joyce de Castro

June 16, 2026

AI bots are causing server overloads, resource drain, and analytics distortion. Businesses must re-evaluate bot manageme...

Palumbo Angela

June 12, 2026