"The CMA earlier this month designated Google with a special status in the search and advertising markets because of its "substantial and entrenched" position. The move will allow the regulator to impose more stringent regulations beyond just search and ads, including in areas like Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, the Discover feed, Top Stories, and News tab."
""We don't have a dog directly in the fight. We're not an AI company," Prince said, speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference in London this week. "We're not a media publisher, but we're this network that sits between them. 80% of the AI companies are our customers," he added."
""Google is saying, 'we have an absolute God-given right to all of the content in the world, even if we don't pay for it, because look what we did for the last 27 years," Prince explained. "And, they're saying we can take it and use the same crawler we use for search in order to power our AI systems."
Cloudflare launched a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping content and is now pushing for stronger regulation in the AI sector. Chief executive Matthew Prince traveled to London to meet the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority and proposed stricter rules for Google because of its search dominance. The CMA granted Google a special status that enables regulation beyond search and ads, including AI Overviews, AI Mode, Discover, Top Stories, and the News tab. Cloudflare positions itself as neutral infrastructure with roughly 80% of AI companies as customers and argues that Google's reuse of its web crawler to feed AI creates an unfair advantage.
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