News Summary

• Neil Vogel, CEO of People, Inc., said Google is not playing fair because it uses the same bot to crawl websites to index them for the Google search engine as it does to support its AI features.
• Vogel believes publishers need more leverage in the AI era, which is why he feels it’s necessary to block AI crawlers.
• Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, whose company makes the AI-blocking solution, said he believed that things would still change in the future when it comes to how the AI companies behave.