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 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 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 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 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 The company argues the architecture behind WordPress is outdated and insecure, particularly when it comes to plugins.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.
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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 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 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.
Cloudflare insists it does not censor the internet, but its H1 2025 transparency report shows how abuse enforcement, piracy takedowns, and government geoblocking now happen at infrastructure scale. From automated copyright removals to phishing interdiction and firm resistance to DNS blocking, the report reveals how much influence now sits quietly inside the plumbing of the modern web.
Cloudflare’s 2025 Year in Review shows how bot wars, government outages, and post-quantum encryption reshaped the internet.
Cloudflare’s postmortem reveals how a malformed Bot Management file triggered a global outage and how engineers resolved it.