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

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

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

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

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

More companies are opting not to archive their sites ...

Content scraping is harming the information business in ways that could not have been foreseen. Case in point:At least three major news organizations are blocking access to their content by the ...

Several major news organizations, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today’s parent company, are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from crawling their sites. Publishers ...

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 ...

Content scraping is harming the information business in ways that could not have been foreseen. Case in point: At least three major news organizations are blocking access to their content by the ...