You can now charge AI crawlers. Seriously.

Today, I’m going to talk about Cloudflare’s bold move to charge AI crawlers, a new web-based IDE built for agents, and how X is quietly giving Community Notes an AI upgrade.

In today’s post:

• Cloudflare: Pay per crawl is here

• Cursor Web app for agents

• X Community notes getting AI boost

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Cloudflare just made it possible to charge AI crawlers

Most websites face a tough choice: open the gates to AI scraping or lock everything down. Cloudflare thinks there’s a smarter option.

Here’s everything you need to know:

• With Pay per crawl, creators can now charge AI crawlers per content request.

• Instead of saying yes or no, publishers get three options: allow, block, or charge.

• Built on the long-dormant HTTP 402 code, this system revives the idea of "payment required" for digital access.

• Cloudflare handles the plumbing authentication, payments, and enforcement using standard web infrastructure.

• Crawlers authenticate with signed headers, publishers set prices, and Cloudflare ensures nobody spoofs the system.

• Whether you're running a news org or personal blog, you get the power to monetize your content at internet scale.

• The goal? A programmable web where agents can pay for access — not just crawl it.

Here’s what I think:

This could reshape how value flows across the web. If content becomes an asset with price tags not just free fuel for AI we might see better incentives, deeper work, and fewer black-box scrapes. The key will be adoption. Will enough crawlers agree to pay?

Launch

Cursor launches web app for AI coding agents

Cursor just dropped a web app that lets users command and monitor AI coding agents, no IDE required. It’s a big step in Anysphere’s push to make AI-first development frictionless.

Here’s what you need to know:

• The new web app lets users assign and track coding tasks using natural language, right from their browser.

• It expands Cursor’s background agents, autonomous tools that write code, fix bugs, and handle tasks solo.

• You can now launch agents via desktop or mobile, and monitor them as they work on your repo.

• Each agent gets a unique link so teams can follow progress and review changes collaboratively.

• This follows Cursor’s Slack integration, where users can assign agents tasks just by tagging @Cursor.

• Cursor says it’s not chasing “demo-ware” it’s focused on real tools that developers can trust.

• With $500M ARR and over half of the Fortune 500 onboard, Cursor’s growth is no fluke.

POV:

Cursor is positioning itself as the command center for AI-powered software development. With agents accessible from browser, Slack, and IDE, it’s quietly building the most practical agent workflow we’ve seen; not flashy, just deeply useful.

Incoming

AI is coming for X Community Notes

X just launched a pilot to let AI bots generate Community Notes, the crowdsourced fact-checks that show up under controversial posts. This changes the game for online information.

Here’s what you need to know:

• Community Notes have been a rare win for X, drawing praise for transparency and inspiring copycats at Meta and TikTok.

• Now, AI chatbots, including X’s own Grok can generate these notes through APIs.

• AI-generated notes are treated just like human ones: same vetting, same consensus process.

• That sounds fair, but it’s risky; LLMs still “hallucinate,” making up facts that sound real.

• Researchers at X stress that AI should assist, not replace, human judgment. They suggest a hybrid model: AI drafts, humans verify a “virtuous loop” of fact-checking.

• But flooding the system with AI notes might overwhelm human reviewers, undermining the process.

Letting AI into fact-checking is a delicate balance. Done right, it could scale a good system. Done wrong, it could flood it with plausible nonsense. X is betting on collaboration; let’s hope it doesn’t turn into contradiction.

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