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AI Training

Wider Tech20 Oct 2026

Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash

Ars Technica

Meta −60 AI Training −40 AI Crawlers −40

Wider Tech20 Oct 2026

Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs

Ars Technica

Meta −80 AI Training −40

Wider Tech17 Oct 2026

Meta removes language that stirred scraping and AI training fears

TechCrunch

Meta +10 AI Training −10

Wider Tech5 Oct 2026

AI crawlers are reading sitemaps and RSS feeds

Search Engine Journal

Google +10 AI Training 0 SEO +10

Wider Tech1 Oct 2026

Cloudflare moves AI agent charging tools into beta

Search Engine Journal

Cloudflare +60 AI Training +20

Wider Tech30 Sept 2026

WP Engine: the good bot, bad bot divide is dead

WP Engine Blog

WP Engine +20 AI Training −10 Google 0

Wider Tech30 Sept 2026

Reddit kills RSS feeds and public API access

TechCrunch

AI Training +20

Wider Tech19 Sept 2026

Google tests paying for content that feeds AI answers

Search Engine Journal

Google +20 Cloudflare +60 AI Training −20 SEO +10

Wider Tech17 Sept 2026

Unsealed filings show Microsoft called AI scraping 'theft'

TechCrunch

Microsoft −80 AI Training −60

Wider Tech15 Sept 2026

Cloudflare lets sites refuse AI training but stay in search

Search Engine Journal

Cloudflare +50 AI Training −40 Google +30