Cloudflare Just Blocked Every AI Bot

Cloudflare's landmark shift to blocking AI crawlers by default, practical tutorials on turning code repositories into LLM-friendly formats, and using GPT-4o for interior design assistance…

In this edition we’ll be covering…

• A breakdown of Cloudflare's new AI bot blocking system and pay-per-crawl model

• A tutorial on how to convert any GitHub repository into clean, LLM-readable text with Gitingest

• A step-by-step guide for using ChatGPT's visual capabilities for home decoration

• 5 essential AI industry updates from Microsoft's Premier League deal to Amazon's touch-enabled robots

• 3 AI tools to add to your stack

• And much more…

The Latest in AI

The Great AI Bot Blockade Begins

Cloudflare just delivered the web's biggest reality check to AI companies.

The internet infrastructure giant, which hosts around a fifth of the entire internet, now blocks AI bots by default across millions of websites, affecting everyone from Sky News to BuzzFeed.

This isn't some small policy tweak. With AI crawlers generating over 50 billion requests to Cloudflare's network daily, this move fundamentally rewrites how AI companies access training data. Roger Lynch, CEO of Condé Nast (publisher of GQ, Vogue, and The New Yorker), even called it a "game-changer" for publishers…

What's changing:

• Millions of websites now protected by default from unauthorized AI scraping.

• New "Pay Per Crawl" system allows content creators to charge AI firms for access. Think of this as a toll booth for AI training data, where publishers can finally monetize what was previously free real estate for tech giants.

• Publishers can now say "yes" to helping improve search results while saying "no" to training competing AI models, giving them surgical precision over their content's usage.

• Cloudflare is repurposing their battle-tested anti-DDoS weapons to identify sneaky crawlers, plus they've built an AI "Labyrinth" that sends bad actors down rabbit holes of AI-generated junk pages.

So What?

"If the Internet is going to survive the age of AI, we need to give publishers the control they deserve and build a new economic model that works for everyone," wrote Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince.

The unspoken web agreement is officially broken, where search engines once sent traffic back to publishers, AI systems now generate answers without attribution, cutting out the original creators entirely.

Companies like Associated Press, Time, Quora, and Stack Overflow are already backing this shift. We're witnessing the end of free AI training data and the beginning of a new creator economy where content actually gets compensated...

Tool Spotlight

Turn Any GitHub Repo into LLM-Ready Text

Ever wanted to feed an entire codebase to Claude or ChatGPT but got overwhelmed by the complexity? Enter Gitingest – a brilliantly simple tool that converts any repository into a clean, LLM-friendly text format.

Here's how you can use it:

1. Visit Gitingest.com and you'll see a clean interface designed for one purpose: repo digestion.

2. Drop in your GitHub URL – simply paste any GitHub repository link into the input field.

3. Get instant text output – Gitingest processes the entire repository structure and outputs it as a single, readable text file that LLMs can easily understand. Just scroll down to see the output!

🔥 Pro Tip: You can also replace 'hub' with 'ingest' in any GitHub URL for direct access. So github.com/user/repo becomes gitingest.com/user/repo for instant processing.

The output includes file structures, code content, and documentation in a format that's perfect for asking LLMs to analyze codebases, suggest improvements, or understand project architecture without the usual context-switching nightmare.

Get Your Hands Dirty!

Furnish Your Space with GPT-4o’s Visual Powers

Your phone camera just became the world's smartest interior designer.

With ChatGPT's enhanced image capabilities, you can now get instant furniture and decor recommendations tailored to your exact space.

Here's how to activate your AI decorator:

1. Open ChatGPT on your phone and make sure you're logged into your account.

2. Snap a photo of the room or space you want to furnish – get a wide angle that shows the layout, lighting, and existing elements.

3. Toggle on image mode by hitting the “+” icon on the bottom left and tapping Create an Image.

4. Use the following prompt:

Analyze this room and imagine 5 specific furniture pieces or decor items that would enhance this space. Consider the room's style, lighting, dimensions, and color palette.

AI will analyze everything from your wall colors to lighting conditions and suggest pieces that actually make sense for your space and style.

No more buying furniture that looks great online but terrible in your living room…

Quick Bites

Stay updated with our favorite highlights, dive in for a full flavor of the coverage!

Claude Code launches hooks functionality, allowing developers to create custom shell commands that execute at various points in Claude Code's lifecycle.

Microsoft strikes a five-year deal with Premier League, introducing the "Premier League Companion" powered by Copilot that draws from 30 seasons of stats, 300,000 articles, and 9,000 videos to transform how 1.8 billion fans engage with football/soccer.

Grammarly acquires AI email client Superhuman for an undisclosed amount (previously valued at $825 million), positioning the writing assistant company to build AI agents that orchestrate multiple workflows across communication tools.

OpenAI's enterprise consulting division now charges at least $10 million per client through their "Forward Deployed Engineers" team, putting them in direct competition with established players.

Amazon deploys "Vulcan" AI robots with tactile sensing at its Spokane facility, making it the second location worldwide and first in North America to use touch-enabled warehouse robotics that work alongside human employees.

Trending Tools

🌐 Neo Cal - AI-powered calendar that understands natural language commands and automatically syncs with Google Calendar.

🔍 STORM - Stanford's revolutionary research tool that generates Wikipedia-style articles with proper citations.

📊 Athena Board - The ultimate AI-Powered collaborative whiteboard.

The Neural Network

Great, so we'll FINALLY go from "my AI writes clean emails" to "my robot reorganized my spice rack in alphabetical order by chemical compound."

Can't wait for this, it’s coming...

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