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		<title>Continuous accountability for Verified bots</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Tsoukaladelis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Identity alone doesn't guarantee a bot will behave responsibly. We are introducing a system to continuously evaluate whether Verified bots honor site preferences, like robots.txt and HTTP 429s, ensuring they remain accountable over time.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Cloudflare and OpenAI: making AI discovery better for everyone</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Conroy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How Cloudflare and OpenAI are working together to help AI find useful content, keep up with changes, and make fewer wasted requests — making the experience better for users and website owners alike.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rohin Lohe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Birthday Week]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cloudflare’s AI Gateway, Ceramic.ai, Stocktwits, and more are using the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway today to charge agents for access to tokens, APIs, and MCP tools. U.S.-based sellers can now apply for access to the closed beta.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>BotBase for Operators: A clearer path to joining Cloudflare&#8217;s directory of bots and agents</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/08/28/botbase-for-operators-a-clearer-path-to-joining-cloudflares-directory-of-bots-and-agents/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julian Laxman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[AI Bots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Application Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bot Management]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bot operators now have a home in the Cloudflare dashboard to manage submissions. This update adds submission status tracking, submission editing, and a behavior model so operators can accurately declare how their bots use content.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Say it once: introducing Bot Preference Sync</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/08/22/say-it-once-introducing-bot-preference-sync/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jin-Hee Lee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[AI Bots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bot Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network Services]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cloudflare's new Bot Preference Sync automatically aligns your robots.txt file with your AI bot policies for Search, Agent, and Training. Easily manage which bots access your content without maintaining static files.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Content Independence Day, one year on: building the business model for the agentic Internet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arielle Weiss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bot Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Content Independence Day]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One year after declaring Content Independence Day, a dynamic market for monetized content has officially emerged. In this report, we examine how the rise of autonomous AI agents is upending traditional search referrals and detail the new infrastructure required to support a sustainable web economy.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rohin Lohe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Content Independence Day]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We're opening the waitlist for our Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare. The charges will settle in stablecoins over the x402 open protocol, with no payments stack of your own to build.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Unmasking the crawls with Attribution Business Insights</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jin-Hee Lee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cloudflare’s new Attribution Business Insights dashboard helps website owners understand crawler behavior, appetite, and potential value, fueling business-level conversations around crawl compensation.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Moving past bots vs. humans</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thibault Meunier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As AI assistants and privacy proxies challenge the capabilities of traditional bot detection, the Web needs new models for accountability. We believe that control should remain with the client, and that an open ecosystem of anonymous credentials is key to preserving user privacy while protecting origins from abuse.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The most-seen UI on the Internet? Redesigning Turnstile and Challenge Pages</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2026/02/27/the-most-seen-ui-on-the-internet-redesigning-turnstile-and-challenge-pages/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leo Bacevicius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[product design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Product News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turnstile]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We serve 7.6 billion challenges daily. Here’s how we used research, AAA accessibility standards, and a unified architecture to redesign the Internet’s most-seen user interface.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Beyond IP lists: a registry format for bots and agents</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2025/10/31/beyond-ip-lists-a-registry-format-for-bots-and-agents/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thibault Meunier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We propose an open registry format for Web Bot Auth to move beyond IP-based identity. This allows any origin to discover and verify cryptographic keys for bots, fostering a decentralized and more trustworthy ecosystem.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>One IP address, many users: detecting CGNAT to reduce collateral effects</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2025/10/29/one-ip-address-many-users-detecting-cgnat-to-reduce-collateral-effects/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vasilis Giotsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[IPv4]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[IPv4 scarcity drives widespread use of Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation, a practice in ISPs and mobile networks that places many users behind each IP address, along with their collected activity and volumes of traffic. We introduce the method we’ve developed to detect large-scale IP sharing globally and mitigate the issues that result.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>15 years of helping build a better Internet: a look back at Birthday Week 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nikita Cano]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Birthday Week]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cache]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CDN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloudflare for Startups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloudflare One]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cloudflare Zero Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developer Platform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speed]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rust-powered core systems, post-quantum upgrades, developer access for students, PlanetScale integration, open-source partnerships, and our biggest internship program ever — 1,111 interns in 2026.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Building unique, per-customer defenses against advanced bot threats in the AI era</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2025/09/23/building-unique-per-customer-defenses-against-advanced-bot-threats-in-the-ai-era/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jin-Hee Lee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birthday Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bot Management]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, we are announcing a new approach to catching bots: using models to provide behavioral anomaly detection unique to each bot management customer and stop sophisticated bot attacks.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2025/08/29/the-crawl-to-click-gap-cloudflare-data-on-ai-bots-training-and-referrals/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[João Tomé]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[AI Week]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internet Trends]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[By mid-2025, training drives nearly 80% of AI crawling, while referrals to publishers (especially from Google) are falling and crawl-to-refer ratios show AI consumes far more than it sends back.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[AI Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bots]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are extending AI-related insights on Cloudflare Radar with new industry-focused data and a breakdown of bot traffic by purpose, such as training or user action.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The next step for content creators in working with AI bots: Introducing AI Crawl Control</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2025/08/28/the-next-step-for-content-creators-in-working-with-ai-bots-introducing-ai-crawl-control/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Will Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Без категория]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI Bots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bot Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bots]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cloudflare launches AI Crawl Control (formerly AI Audit) and introduces easily customizable 402 HTTP responses.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The age of agents: cryptographically recognizing agent traffic</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2025/08/28/the-age-of-agents-cryptographically-recognizing-agent-traffic/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jin-Hee Lee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Без категория]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI Bots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bot Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bots]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cloudflare now lets websites and bot creators use Web Bot Auth to segment agents from verified bots, making it easier for customers to allow or disallow the many types of user and partner directed]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Announcing the Cloudflare Browser Developer Program</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2025/08/18/announcing-the-cloudflare-browser-developer-program/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sally Lee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Challenge Page]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Announcing the Browser Developer Program: Cloudflare’s new collaborative program to help shape Cloudflare challenges that work seamlessly with your browser. Join us today!]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2025/08/04/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabriel Corral]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bots]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
		
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