Cloudflare Precursor watches your mouse and keyboard to decide if you are human
Cloudflare Precursor uses session-long behavioral monitoring to detect bots by studying mouse movement, typing cadence, scrolling, and page activity.
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Cloudflare is helping OpenAI crawl the web it once helped publishers protect
Cloudflare says it wants to protect publishers from aggressive AI crawlers. Now it is helping OpenAI discover and index web content more efficiently.
Cloudflare says AI companies should not get your content for free
Cloudflare is introducing new AI crawler controls, analytics, and monetization tools that could give publishers more power over how their content is used by AI companies.
Cloudflare wants to kill the CAPTCHA and it has browser giants on board
Cloudflare has teamed up with Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Shopify to develop PACT, a privacy-first protocol designed to reduce CAPTCHAs, limit tracking, and help websites distinguish legitimate users from abusive bots.
Mastercard wants AI agents paying each other nonstop
Mastercard believes AI agents will soon be buying services, paying fees, and handling transactions automatically at machine speed. The company’s new Agent Pay for Machines platform aims to support nonstop machine-to-machine payments across traditional and crypto rails.
Cloudflare now controls a huge piece of the open source web
Cloudflare has acquired VoidZero, the company behind Vite and several major JavaScript development tools. The company promises everything will remain open source and vendor neutral, but developers may still have concerns about growing consolidation in the AI-native web stack.
Cloudflare and Anthropic want to make AI agents less scary for businesses
Cloudflare and Anthropic are teaming up on Cloudflare Environments for Claude Managed Agents, giving businesses a more secure and scalable way to run AI agents with sandboxed code execution, browser automation, observability, private networking, and Cloudflare Workers support.
Cloudflare says WordPress is outdated and insecure, introduces EmDash CMS
Cloudflare is taking a shot at WordPress with a new open source CMS called EmDash. The company argues the architecture behind WordPress is outdated and insecure, particularly when it comes to plugins. Built with TypeScript, serverless infrastructure, and AI tooling in mind, EmDash is Cloudflare’s attempt to rethink what a modern publishing platform should look like.
Hosting.com launches AI application hosting platform to help developers build and deploy faster
Building apps with AI is easy now. Running them is not. Hosting.com thinks it has a solution, but does it really fix the problem?
Google Chrome plots a quantum-safe future for HTTPS
Google Chrome is preparing HTTPS for a post-quantum future with Merkle Tree Certificates, aiming to deliver stronger security without slowing down the web.
Cloudflare becomes first SASE platform with post quantum encryption across entire stack
Cloudflare claims it is the first SASE platform to support modern post quantum encryption across its entire Cloudflare One stack, including IPsec and Zero Trust services.
Cloudflare buys Human Native to flip the script on AI
Cloudflare is acquiring Human Native, a startup that structures content for licensed AI training. The deal hints at a coming shift where creators decide how their work is used and finally get paid for it.