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Cloudflare's new defaults start blocking AI training and agent crawlers on ad-supported pages

The change was announced in July. Crawlers that serve several purposes, such as Googlebot, Bingbot and Applebot, are judged by the strictest setting that applies to any of them.

Microsoft adds Grok to Copilot in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, switched off by default

Grok joins models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft itself as an option in Copilot. Microsoft has not said which Grok version it is using.

Cornelis raises $205m and wants the network, not the GPU, to do some of the AI work

IAG Capital Partners led the round. Cornelis sells open networking that works with any accelerator, and is pitching it as a way to stop expensive GPUs waiting for data.

Meta launches Meta One, selling more AI usage in bundles from $7.99 to $499 a month

Two personal bundles cost $7.99 and $19.99 a month, and four creator and business tiers run up to $499. Meta says it has 15 million subscriptions and trials so far.

Salesforce builds Koa, its first reasoning model, on Nvidia's open Nemotron 3 Super

The model is in pilot with select customers and due for general availability in US regions this winter. Salesforce keeps the weights and runs inference itself.