Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is pushing UK regulator to unbundle Googles search and AI crawlers | TechCrunch

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  • The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority designated Google with a special status in the search and advertising markets.
  • The move will allow the regulator to impose more stringent regulations beyond just search and ads.
  • Cloudflare is in a good position to make recommendations because it’s not in the AI business itself but has a large number of relationships with the AI companies.
  • “We don’t have a dog directly in the fight.
  • We’re not an AI company,” Matthew Prince said.
After earlier this year launching a marketplace that allows websites to charge AI bots for scraping their content, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare is pushing for increased regulation in the AI [+3662 chars]

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