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Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/

Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This helps site owners make decisions about which AI bots to allow or block. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-crawl-refer-ratio-on-radar/

Announcing Cloudflare and Rakuten Mobile strategic partnership! Together we are delivering Zero Trust and network access as a managed service to our customers. Our new MSSP offering will help secure more corporate clients in Japan. https://cfl.re/4itJOlW