Ai Training news and trends

Cloudflare Lets Websites Block AI Training Without Losing Search
Connected Economy // September 15, 2026

Connectivity cloud company Cloudflare has launched a setting that enables website owners to remain visible in search results while blocking crawlers from using their content for artificial intelligence training, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 15) press release. Cloudflare’s new Disallow AI Training setting...

Google Expands AI Training to Include User-Uploaded Media to Search Tools
News // July 06, 2026

Google has expanded the scope of data it collects to train its artificial intelligence models, now incorporating media uploaded by users across several of its primary search-related services. The policy change, Engadget reported Monday (July 6), was implemented without much public fanfare and allows the...

Cloudflare Arms Website Owners in Fight Against AI Crawlers
Artificial Intelligence // July 01, 2026

Connectivity cloud company Cloudflare is introducing new tools and integrations designed to enable site owners to decide whether automate agents and bots can access their content and add it to artificial intelligence systems. The new offerings are designed to provide this choice to, for example,...

Google Tells News Publishers to Share Content for AI Training or Lose Fees
Artificial Intelligence // June 25, 2026

Google is asking news publishers who join a pilot program in which “AI-powered article overviews” are shared in Google News and the Gemini AI chatbot to also give the tech giant broad rights on how it uses their content, The Information reported Thursday (June 25),...

Interviews & Exclusives
Proprietary Data Gives Payments Firms a New AI Moat

April 06, 2026
The companies that process the world’s payments have spent decades building a record of how money moves across merchants, geographies and account types. Every transaction carries a timestamp, a merchant identity, an amount and an account history. Unlike the text and images that train most artificial intelligence (AI) systems, that data is structured and tied […]

Quick Reads
Lawmakers Urge Google and Spirit Airlines to Pause Data Sale

October 08, 2026
A Google spokesperson told PYMNTS on Thursday (Oct. 8) that the company has already taken measures to address concerns about the company’s purchase of data from Spirit Airlines. The spokesperson said this after more than 100 U.S. lawmakers called on the CEOs of Spirit Airlines and Google to halt the transfer of information related to […]

Cloudflare Lets Websites Block AI Training Without Losing Search

September 15, 2026
Connectivity cloud company Cloudflare has launched a setting that enables website owners to remain visible in search results while blocking crawlers from using their content for artificial intelligence training, the...

Google Expands AI Training to Include User-Uploaded Media to Search Tools

July 06, 2026
Google has expanded the scope of data it collects to train its artificial intelligence models, now incorporating media uploaded by users across several of its primary search-related services. The policy...

Cloudflare Arms Website Owners in Fight Against AI Crawlers

July 01, 2026
Connectivity cloud company Cloudflare is introducing new tools and integrations designed to enable site owners to decide whether automate agents and bots can access their content and add it to...