NEWS/17 OCT

AI news for small business, Saturday, 17 October 2026

5 stories worth five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it.

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Cloudflare will score Verified bots on whether they obey robots.txt and slow down when told to

A bot that is listed as verified can still ignore a site's rules, so Cloudflare is measuring what it does next.

CLOUDFLARE BLOG|16 OCT
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These are short summaries of other people's reporting, with our own commentary. Each story names its source and links to the original. How we source and credit

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