Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default, introduces pay per crawl model
Last year, Cloudflare introduced a setting that allowed website owners to block AI crawlers. Now, the company is announcing that this setting will now be the default rather than a user needing to switch it on.
The company explained that by switching to a permission-based model, it is eliminating the need for content owners to manually configure settings in order to opt out.
According to Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, AI crawlers have been scraping content from the web without limits, but in order for the Internet to thrive in an AI era, there is a need for a new economic model that works for creators, consumers, and AI founders.
Catchpoint launches new solutions for monitoring AI workloads
Catchpoint is launching new monitoring capabilities to provide new ways for IT teams to detect and prevent AI performance issues.
The new AI Assistant Reliability Monitoring solution detects issues that affect AI APIs, LLMs, and chatbots.
It tests AI endpoints across over 100 countries to detect DNS, routing, or regional outages. It also includes the ability to track response times, synthetic prompt monitoring, uptime and error detection, and visual dependency mapping.
Broadcom begins shipping Tomahawk Ultra Ethernet switches
Broadcom is starting to ship out its latest Ethernet switch, the Tomahawk Ultra, designed for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads.
The company says this switch is optimized for AI workloads because it executes In-Network Collectives operations directly rather than outsourcing them to XPUs. This reduces job completion time, improves utilization of compute resources, and is endpoint-agnostic, so it can be adopted across a range of system architectures and vendor ecosystems, Broadcom explained.
“Tomahawk Ultra is a testament to innovation, involving a multi-year effort by hundreds of engineers who reimagined every aspect of the Ethernet switch,” said Ram Velaga, senior vice president and general manager of the Core Switching Group at Broadcom. “This highlights Broadcom’s commitment to invest in advancing Ethernet for high-performance networking and AI scale-up.”
Aqua Security forms advisory program to collaborate on secure AI best practices
Aqua Security is bringing together several leaders in enterprise security to develop strategies for securing AI in production.
According to Aqua Security, companies that have already adopted AI have focused on security at different layers of the technology stack. For example, some utilize AI firewalls to monitor how users are interacting with public models, while others utilize SDKs to enforce controls at the application level.
The company believes that these approaches ignore the core infrastructure that AI runs on and don’t provide centralized visibility across the entire application life cycle. To enable truly secure AI, a more intentional strategy is needed, which is why the company is launching the Secure AI Advisory Program.
