You need to pay a fare to ride a bus and, if Cloudflare has its way, AI models will soon need to pay a fare to crawl all over your content. The program, currently in beta, will allow sites to set the price. It will also, by default, block non-paying AI crawlers from site access.
AI writing assistant Grammarly is expanding its offering by acquiring Superhuman, an AI-native email app. Grammarly’s AI agents already support email creation. Superhuman is an agentic AI workspace that accelerates sending and responding to emails as well as triaging inboxes, scheduling meetings and interacting with other systems.
But just wait a moment, because start-up Bright Data is delivering a set of AI search and discovery tools to give LLMs and AI agents frictionless access to the open web. One of these new tools, Browser.ai, is billed as an “unblockable” AI-native browser that defies detection by mimicking human users. Place your bets now.
The web search tool Perplexity looks like it’s taking on Google with its latest release, a web browser named Comet. Comet claims to move “from browsing to thinking,” surfacing information and search results in response to natural language queries. Comet is available immediately to Perplexity Max subscribers; others can join a wait list.