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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI across multiple crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)

The new control will allow publishers to apply their AI training preferences across multiple crawlers.

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