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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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