Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI has ruined internet: Search engine days are long gone

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warns that AI's rise as "answer engines" threatens the internet's original purpose of free knowledge sharing. He envisions a future where a few AI giants control ... Read More

Cloudflare CEO warns of a ‘Black Mirror’ outcome if Sam Altman or other AI people control the media

"It could be that we go back to a time where there are five powerful families out there that control all information," Prince warned, like the Medicis in Renaissance Italy. Read More

Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins

The Cloudflare CEO joined ‘The Big Interview’ to talk about standing up to content scraping, the internet's potential futures, and his company’s relationship to Trump. Read More

Matthew Prince

Matthew Prince had to be converted to the belief that AI is eating the web. It was 18 months ago that he started getting calls from media executives, who complained to him about AI companies copying ... Read More

This tech CEO is trying to stop AI killing the internet. Why is everyone so mad at him?

AI "answer engines" are an "existential threat to the internet," Cloudflare's CEO tells BI. He puts most of the blame on Google, and says the search giant will have to pay for content soon. The CEO's ... Read More

How Cloudflare declared war on AI scrapers

Cloudflare supports more than 20% of total internet traffic. The company recently made headlines with breakthrough technology that blocks AI companies from scraping online content with impunity. Read More

What to Know About the ‘Dead Internet’ Theory—and Why It’s Spreading

Sam Altman’s comment that the internet could be “dead” echoes a once-fringe theory that bots, not humans, are now shaping the online world. Read More