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Cloudflare, Inc. a connectivity cloud company, announced it is now the first Internet infrastructure provider to block AI crawlers accessing content without permission or compensation, by default. Starting today, website owners can choose if they want AI crawlers to access their content, and decide how AI companies can use it. AI companies can also now clearly state their purpose – if their crawlers are used for training, inference, or search – to help website owners decide which crawlers to allow. Cloudflare’s new default setting is a step toward a more sustainable future for both content creators and AI innovators.

AI companies will now be required to obtain explicit permission from a website before scraping. Upon sign-up with Cloudflare, every new domain will now be asked if they want to allow AI crawlers, giving customers the choice upfront to explicitly allow or deny AI crawlers access. This significant shift means that every new domain starts with the default of control, and eliminates the need for webpage owners to manually configure their settings to opt out. Customers can easily check their settings and enable crawling at any time if they want their content to be freely accessed.

https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-just-changed-how-ai-crawlers-scrape-the-internet-at-large

Elsevier, provider of advanced information and decision support, launched ScienceDirect AI, a generative AI tool for researchers. It is designed to transform the way researchers work by enabling them to instantly extract, summarize and compare trusted insights from millions of full-text articles and book chapters on ScienceDirect, a platform for trusted, peer-reviewed research.

Users can search and get answers from within the full-text of 14 million articles and book chapters, using their own words to describe what they need and why. ScienceDirect AI searches across the millions of documents in its index to provide a Summary Response with references, Source Snippets for each reference, and short Related Insights summaries while linking back to the original document. A conversational feature answers questions about the content of a specific full-text article or book chapter and allows researchers to ask further questions.

ScienceDirect AI’s Compare Experiments tool takes a set of articles and creates a table breaking down each experiment within them, drawing out aspects of each including goals, methods and results.

ScienceDirect AI’s use of third-party LLMs is private, no information is stored or used to train public models, and all data is stored in a protected and private environment exclusive to Elsevier.

https://elsevier.shorthandstories.com/sciencedirect-ai

Foxit, a provider of PDF and eSignature products and services, helping knowledge workers to increase productivity and do more with documents, today announced the addition of multi-document analysis to its AI Assistant feature within its mobile apps for iOS and Android. This new and unique capability enhances the AI Assistant’s functionality, enabling users to analyze multiple documents simultaneously directly from their mobile devices.

The introduction of multi-document analysis caters to the evolving needs of professionals who require efficient tools to manage and process large volumes of information. The new feature is designed to simplify workflows by allowing users to:

• Summarize Multiple Documents at Once: Create concise summaries for all uploaded documents, saving time by avoiding the need to review each individually.
• Ask Questions Across Files: Get answers that draw insights from multiple documents simultaneously, ideal for comparing contracts, reports, or research materials.
• Extract Key Information: Pinpoint critical data, such as deadlines or figures, or find patterns and trends from across multiple files in seconds.

The multi-document analysis feature is now available in the latest update to Foxit’s PDF Reader and PDF Editor mobile apps for iOS and Android.

https://foxit.com