World Congress 2025 • Jul 17, 2025

Fireside Chat with Cloudflare's Chief Strategy Officer, Stephanie Cohen (with Mike Butcher MBE)

Stephanie Cohen, Mike Butcher

Stephanie Cohen declares that uncompensated AI scraping is unsustainable. Learn how Cloudflare is driving a permission-based web by blocking AI training crawlers by default.

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