Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic to honor shared robots.txt AI-training opt-out
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The four AI labs announced in late October 2026 that they will honor a single shared robots.txt signal letting websites opt out of AI training, giving publishers a common machine-readable control.
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Timeline · 11 reports
- 2026-11-02 22:11 · DEV Community — AI
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Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic Back a Shared AI Training Opt-Out Signal - 2026-11-02 06:45 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Weekly AI Digest · November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 06:00 · DEV Community — AI
Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic plan to honor shared AI-training opt-out - 2026-11-01 22:15 · DEV Community — AI
AI Daily Digest November 2, 2026: Four AI Giants Back One robots.txt Token, ChatGPT and Codex Merge Quotas, Apple Puts Qwen Inside Siri - 2026-11-01 16:44 · r/OpenAI
OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal so websites can opt out of AI training - 2026-11-01 10:15 · DEV Community — AI
Google, OpenAI and Microsoft Move Toward a Shared AI Training Control - 2026-11-01 02:20 · DEV Community — AI
One robots.txt Line Will Opt Your Site Out of AI Training at Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft - 2026-10-31 22:12 · DEV Community — AI
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One robots.txt Rule to Opt Out of AI Training: What Developers Need to Know (2027) - 2026-10-31 12:24 · The Next Web
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic back one AI training opt-out