New Idea: Charge AI Crawlers for Access

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Cloudflare just launched Pay per Crawl, a way for creators to finally charge AI bots for access. Think of it as putting a toll gate on your content instead of just blocking or allowing crawlers.

Meanwhile, Microsoft’s AI boss Mustafa Suleyman is making noise with a new diagnostic AI that outperforms doctors in tough cases. It’s a big step toward what they’re calling medical superintelligence, and no, they say it won’t replace your doctor (yet).

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In this issue:

• 🤝 In Partnership: Smart guide to marketing automation

• 🤿Deep Dive: Paywall for AI crawlers

• 🖼️AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art

• 🤝In Partnership: Inventory on autopilot

• 🤿Deep Dive: AI beats doctors at diagnosis

• ⚒️Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity

• 📰Top News: News on AI, no-code, and productivity

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Cloudflare Empowers Creators to Charge AI Crawlers for Content Access

Intelligence: Cloudflare has launched Pay per Crawl, a system that lets content creators charge AI crawlers for access, offering a new monetization path beyond simply allowing or blocking bots.

• Publishers can now charge AI crawlers per request using HTTP 402 Payment Required.

• Cloudflare acts as the Merchant of Record, handling authentication, pricing, and payment.

• Publishers maintain full control with options to allow, block, or charge individual crawlers.

• AI crawlers must authenticate using cryptographic headers to prevent spoofing.

• This system lays the groundwork for dynamic pricing, licensing models, and future AI-agent access.

🖼️ AI ART

Examples of great and trending AI art

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Mustafa Suleyman and Microsoft AI Chart Path to ‘Medical Superintelligence’

Intelligence: Microsoft, led by AI chief Mustafa Suleyman, unveiled an AI system that outperforms human doctors in complex diagnoses, calling it a step toward “medical superintelligence” while downplaying the risk to healthcare jobs.

• Microsoft’s AI system, using OpenAI’s o3 model, accurately solved over 80% of complex diagnostic cases from the New England Journal of Medicine, compared to just 20% by individual doctors.

• The system uses a “diagnostic orchestrator” that mimics a panel of physicians to ask questions, order tests, and reach diagnoses.

• Suleyman claims the system could be nearly error-free within 5–10 years, easing pressure on global health systems.

• Microsoft emphasizes that the AI complements rather than replaces doctors, citing the human elements of trust and ambiguity in patient care.

• The system is more efficient at ordering tests, offering potential cost savings, but is not yet ready for clinical deployment.

• Microsoft critiques traditional medical exams for overstating AI competence, positioning its step-by-step reasoning approach as more realistic.

• The AI draws on models from OpenAI, Meta, Google, Anthropic, and Grok to simulate deep, cross-disciplinary medical knowledge.

⚒️ TOOL SNAPSHOTS

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📰 TOP NEWS

News on AI, no-code, automation, and productivity

💼 OpenAI Pushes Back on Meta’s Hiring Spree

Sam Altman urged OpenAI researchers to stay, responding to Meta’s recent talent poaching by promising a compensation review and emphasizing the company’s long-term AGI mission and unique culture.

🧠 X tests AI-written Fact Checks

X will begin testing AI-generated Community Notes, allowing chatbots like Grok to draft fact-checks that still undergo human vetting before publication. The pilot aims to pair AI speed with human oversight to maintain accuracy.

💼 OpenAI Targets Big Enterprise Deals

OpenAI is expanding its enterprise consulting services, charging clients like the U.S. Department of Defense and grab at least $10 million to build custom AI tools and offer tailored model integration. The company may also outsource data annotation to partners to boost efficiency.

🧑‍💻 Cursor Brings Coding Agents to the Browser

Cursor has launched a web app that lets users assign and track AI coding agents directly from their browser, expanding access beyond its IDE and Slack integration. The tool allows users to request tasks like bug fixes or feature development and monitor agent progress in real time.

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