The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping
Factual evidence
What the source reports
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic announced support for a shared policy token allowing publishers to opt out of AI scraping.
Inspect the evidence
- Inclusion basis
- Enterprise AI
- Publisher and source type
- The Verge AI · INDUSTRY NEWS
- Published by source
- 30 October 2026
- Collected by OneBench
- 31 Oct 2026, 02:01 UK
Stored source excerpt
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as…
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OneBench interpretation
Institutional assessment
So what
A unified opt-out standard simplifies web scraping consent, impacting public data aggregation for financial AI model training and retrieval.
Do what
Review data ingest pipelines with the team responsible for external data collection to ensure compliance with the emerging policy token standard.