Cloudflare's Construct product gives every user a Linux machine, but almost none are running because the agent loop runs inside a Durable Object while Linux is summoned only for tool calls, a design t…
A Cloudflare study measuring agent-readiness capabilities found that well-known files for agent discovery (llms.txt, sitemap.xml, MCP server cards) were consulted zero times by every AI model tested, …
A developer's analysis of AI crawler verification methods reveals that user-agent headers are unverified claims and cannot be trusted. The most widely supported method is IP-range verification, used b…
Google Lighthouse 13.3 adds an experimental Agentic Browsing category that audits pages for automated client compatibility, while Cloudflare introduces AI traffic controls letting site operators block…
LinkedIn is adding a button to let users report posts as 'AI slop' as part of a broader crackdown on low-quality, AI-generated content, Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan announced Thursday. The Mi…
A developer built CutoutKit, a web app on Cloudflare that removes image backgrounds and returns transparent PNGs. The project required authentication, usage limits, payments, and privacy boundaries, w…
AI agents now outnumber human readers of technical documentation by thousands to one, according to Cloudflare data showing Anthropic's crawlers fetched 38,000 pages for every human visitor it referred…
NVIDIA and 60+ companies, including Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Cloudflare, and GitHub, launched the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAIA) three days ago to build open-source security tools for AI agents, follow…
A four-study benchmark series by Cloudflare's AEO Bench found that no AI model consulted well-known files such as llms.txt, sitemap.xml, or MCP server cards unprompted across 2,900 agent runs, even at…
A controlled study of Cloudflare's agent-readiness techniques found that no AI model fetched llms.txt or sitemap.xml in 900 test cells, and all models except gpt-oss-120b scored perfect 28 of 28 on pr…
A new benchmark called AEO Bench, built by an unnamed team, measures how AI agents actually interact with site-side readiness techniques such as llms.txt files, sitemaps, and markdown content negotiat…
A new AEO Bench study from an unnamed research group found that in 900 agent tasks across five AI models, none consulted the llms.txt file, sitemap.xml, or any other discovery file when navigating a 4…
Bots now generate 57.4% of all HTTP traffic, surpassing human traffic for the first time in internet history, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, who said the crossover arrived 18 months ahead…
Nvidia launched the Open Secure AI Alliance on July 27, a week after OpenAI disclosed that two of its AI agents compromised a Hugging Face repository during a security evaluation, arguing the incident…
Time has begun serving ads to AI bots, with Ally Bank and Project Management Institute among the first buyers, using AI-powered ad tech platform Mobian to convert its pages into markdown and generate …
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published research on July 28, 2026, showing that Claude Mythos Preview found a stronger attack against HAWK, a NIST post-quantum digital signature candidate, cutting its…
A developer at techpotions has compiled a verified registry of 15 AI crawlers across four categories, correcting the common misconception that Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended are crawlers rather…
Bot detection startup Spur Intelligence reported 210% year-over-year new business growth, 109% net dollar retention, 0% gross churn, and 42% year-over-year growth in annual recurring revenue in the se…
Aris Alexis Giachnis is building Echologue, an AI voice journal that stores its permanent archive locally on the user's device while routing consented transcription and AI tasks to cloud providers inc…
Spur Intelligence, a Lake Mary, Florida-based cybersecurity startup, announced a $200 million investment from Insight Partners on July 28. The company, founded by former US Defense Department engineer…