kapynPolicy & Regulation

The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping

A new IETF‑backed “policy token” lets publishers block AI scraping via robots.txt. Major AI firms, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, will honor the token, giving sites a single opt‑out signal for all AI crawlers. This streamlines compliance and protects publisher content from unwanted training data.

The Verge·Oct 30, 2026

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