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Cloudflare Gives AI Agents Wallets That Pay For What They Access

12 August 2026 at 15:30

Cloudflare announced wallets and optional identity handles for AI agents on August 4, extending paid access past crawlers to any caller and any resource.

The post Cloudflare Gives AI Agents Wallets That Pay For What They Access appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Microsoft Clarity Now Separates Branded And Non-Branded AI Citations

10 August 2026 at 14:06

Clarity now splits AI citation queries into branded and non-branded. The two mean different things, and only one counts as discovery.

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Google Lost Its Scraping Case – Now You Have To Pick A Side On The Open Web

28 July 2026 at 18:30

Google's DMCA case against scraper SerpApi collapsed because SearchGuard protects ad revenue, not copyright. The same reasoning weakens every site's anti-bot defense against AI crawlers.

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