This is yet another example of the far-reaching nature of the AI-driven component crisis.

Over 241 news sites are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to prevent AI companies from using archived content for training.

Major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine to fight AI scrapers — and taking three decades of digital history with ...

The Wayback Machine only took 148,628 snapshots from those same 100 news websites' homepages between May 17 and Oct. 1, 2025.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Online archives like the Wayback Machine offer a way to access deleted or altered web pages. - Kilito Chan/Moment RF/Getty Images ...

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet ...

The saying goes, "the internet is forever." Now, the Wayback Machine and Cloudflare are doing their part to strengthen that adage. The two are joining forces to ensure more web pages are archived, ...

An analysis from Originality AI, an AI detection company, found that 23 big news sites block the Internet Archive’s crawler, Wired reports. A USA Today spokesperson told the publication that the move ...

Just because a document is archived on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine® does not necessarily qualify it as prior art for an IPR challenge. What is the Wayback Machine®? The USPTO describes it ...

In efforts to block AI companies' web crawlers, publishers are also not allowing Wayback Machine to take snapshots of their ...