🍭 The Internet Just Got a Toll Booth 💰

Good morning. Intern tried to invoice me for “AI scraper trauma.”

If you see him, tell him Cloudflare pays in exposure.

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Cloudflare flips the script on AI scraping

• Senate kills a 10-year AI gag order

• From Scroller to Seller: Part 3/5

• Steal This Prompt: MoneyMindGPT

• Everything Else to make you say “they did what now?”

Cloudflare
☁️ Pay Per Crawl: Cloudflare Wants AI bots To Pay Rent

The Bite: Cloudflare’s new experiment, "Pay per Crawl", let’s websites charge AI crawlers to scrape their content.

You know when you search on GPT instead of Google?

Cloudflare says pay up!

Publishers set rates, bots swipe to pay, Cloudflare skims off the top.


Snacks: 

• Cloudflare serves 20% of the internet. Making them uniquely positioned to pull this off.

• Sites can set rates, give crawlers free reign, or block them outright. Power to the publisher.

• New sites will block AI crawlers by default. Permission-based scraping, anyone?

• Conde Nast, TIME, The Atlantic, and more already on board the no-bot train.

• Random side bar: Cloudflare might roll out their own stablecoin.

Why it bites: This is the paywall singularity. AI search killed publisher traffic.

Now, Cloudflare wants to revive it — by selling crawls like parking meters for robots.

It's clever.

Are we close to saying “the age of “free information” is dead”?

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• Drops investment tips based on your risk tolerance

• Helps you stop spiraling over money at 2am

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AI Government Policy
🏛️ The AI Gag Order Got Gagged

The Bite: The U.S. Senate just voted 99-1 against banning state-level AI regulation.

A controversial provision that would've blocked states from regulating AI for 10 years.

The bill backed by Cruz, Altman, and the Silicon Valley choir boys (and gals) got vaporized in the Senate.


Snacks: 

• Original plan: No state AI laws until 2035

• Revised to 5 years, then nuked altogether

• Blackburn + Cantwell led the bipartisan kill switch

• 99-1 vote means even the AI bros tapped out

• Altman: Complained about “50 different sets of regulation”

Why it bites: Big Tech’s dream of an AI wild west is hitting reality.

Turns out, “please don’t regulate us” doesn’t work when your agents are rewriting college essays and ghostwriting campaign ads.

The future won’t be regulated later — it’ll be regulated differently in all 50 states.

Good luck, compliance teams.

Personally, we like it. But it could get messy.

Our team was pretty triggered when we covered this initial bill.

Everything Else
🧠 You Need to Know

🦾 xAI lands $10B raise

→ Elon Musk's AI startup bags billions (again). That Grok platform better be grokking amazing.

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⚖️ Clio scoops up vLex for $1B

→ Legal AI platform Vincent just went corporate. Lawyers now billing for robot hours.

👉 Read more

📩 Grammarly snaps up Superhuman

→ Email power users everywhere rejoice—or despair—as AI agents invade your inbox.

👉 Read more

🤖 Amazon hits 1 million robots

→ Robots nearly outnumber warehouse workers, and their new DeepFleet AI is calling shots.

👉 Read more

🍎 Apple eyeing Anthropic and OpenAI for Siri

→ When your own AI can't cut it, outsource. Apple in talks to level up Siri (finally).

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Stupid Simple
💰 From Scroller to Seller: Part 3

The Bite: Matt’s shiny new automation immediately belly-flopped.

Emails ghosted, CRM ignored form submissions—classic rookie moment.

Snacks: 

• Almost rage-quit on the spot.

• Tweaked the setup for 20 stressful minutes.

• Miracle mode activated: emails sent, Airtable logged leads.

Why it bites: Automation’s dirty secret? Nothing works perfectly first try. But surviving your first tech headache = the ultimate confidence unlock.

(Tomorrow: Matt sends one text—and scores his first sale.)

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