Meta removing the AI training sentence from its commercial terms, Cloudflare scoring Verified bots, and a minimum capital deadline pushed to 31 December 2027
Today’s 3 verified stories: on October 17, 2026 Meta deleted the sentence in its Commercial Terms, due to take effect October 30, that let it use content from sites linked to business accounts to train its products, while the permission to crawl those sites remains for ads and business tools. Cloudflare introduced a system that continuously measures whether Verified bots follow robots.txt and HTTP 429 signals, and it already runs internally. A Ministry of Trade communiqué in Official Gazette No. 33403, dated 17 October 2026, gives joint stock and limited companies below the statutory capital amounts until 31 December 2027 to raise their capital. The detailed look at each story, its sources and what it means for your business lives on its own page.
Meta removes the sentence that could have tied crawled business sites to AI training
Nieman Lab reported on October 15, 2026 that Meta’s new Commercial Terms let Meta, or anyone acting for it, use automated software to crawl the domains, pages and URLs tied to the products and services of anyone with a business account on Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp. The first version also said that content could be used to train its products. After the backlash, The Verge reported on October 17 that the sentence had been removed. The effective date shows as October 30, 2026, and the crawling permission remains for ads and business products. Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts said site owners can state their preferences through robots.txt. In UNALSOFT’s view, site owners should review their robots.txt settings.
Cloudflare will score whether Verified bots obey robots.txt and 429s, with customer-set trust thresholds
In a blog post dated October 16, 2026, Cloudflare introduced a system that continuously measures how well Verified bots respect site preferences. It already runs internally. The first signals are whether a bot follows robots.txt instructions and whether it slows down or pauses after an HTTP 429 response, and results will be expressed as an explainable trust band. Publishing scores on Radar, widening the measured behaviors, offering the system to all Cloudflare customers and letting customers choose the trust threshold are listed as plans. The post also points to Cloudflare’s 2025 removal of Perplexity’s bot from its Verified bot list as a precedent.
Türkiye pushes the minimum capital deadline to 31 December 2027
A Ministry of Trade communiqué in Official Gazette No. 33403, dated 17 October 2026, gives joint stock and limited companies whose capital is below the amounts in Articles 332 and 580 of Code 6102 until 31 December 2027 to raise it to the new minimum amounts. Non-public joint stock companies that adopted the registered capital system are covered when their initial and issued capital sit below those amounts. The communiqué took effect on its publication date, and Bloomberg HT reported the same story that day. In UNALSOFT’s reading, the date that matters is now 31 December 2027.
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