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Cloudflare drops AI opt-outs, Meta's Muse dominates traffic, Google Cloud adds Gemini spend caps · 3 sources…

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Cloudflare has reportedly stopped honoring AI bot opt-out instructions in robots.txt files for 118 websites, according to HasData, while Meta's Muse AI agent is responsible for a significant portion of AI traffic to e-commerce sites. Meanwhile, Google Cloud is introducing project-level spending caps for its Gemini agents to help manage escalating enterprise AI costs, which have seen per-token prices drop dramatically but overall volume increase. AI

IMPACT Highlights increasing complexity in AI agent management, cost control, and web crawling policies.

RANK_REASON Multiple AI-related product and policy updates from major tech companies.

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Cloudflare drops AI opt-outs, Meta's Muse dominates traffic, Google Cloud adds Gemini spend caps · 3 sources…

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Multiple AI-related product and policy updates from major tech companies.
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    Meta's Muse accounts for 72% of AI agent requests, HUMAN finds: Of Muse's requests, 84% target product and search pages, and it is 25% more likely than other ag

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  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · ppcland ·

    Google Cloud adds project spend caps that pause Gemini agents at the limit: Per-token prices fell 98% since 2024, yet enterprise AI volume keeps straining budge

    Google Cloud adds project spend caps that pause Gemini agents at the limit: Per-token prices fell 98% since 2024, yet enterprise AI volume keeps straining budgets. SMBs are in early access now; wider release is promised but undated. https:// ppc.land/google-cloud-adds-pro ject-sp…

    LINKS ppc.land/google-cloud-adds-project-spend-…

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