Cloudflare announced new AI traffic options for its customers, allowing them to control how AI bots and crawlers access their content. The options include blocking all AI bots, allowing only specific …
Cloudflare and AWS now let website owners charge AI crawlers per request using HTTP 402, turning a dormant 1997 status code into a toll booth for machines. Cloudflare launched pay-per-crawl in July 20…
Major online publishers including USA Today, Politico, the Economist, People, and Reuters are debating whether to block Google's crawlers as the tech giant's AI summaries reduce traffic and reuse cont…
An experiment by The New York Times found that AI agents, using Anthropic's Claude Cowork app, could perform some office tasks but struggled with nuanced human language and user interfaces. The agents…
A developer who posted 31 articles on DEV found that a post with 300 views and zero reactions attracted search traffic as a technical manual, while a post with only 47 views and five comments sparked …
Code mode, which prompts LLMs to generate executable code instead of structured tool-call signatures, can help smaller models perform tool calling more reliably without additional training, according …
Storyblok's free Community plan caps at 10,000 CDN calls per month, which a small site with 1,000 visitors making 10 API calls per session can exhaust, according to a pricing guide. The Starter plan (…
A survey by The New Stack finds that the four major public clouds—AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Cloudflare—each offer a managed agent sandbox service built on different isolation primitives,…
A developer rebuilt Microsoft Comic Chat's layout engine in a single HTML file, using GPT 5.6 and Fable 5/Opus 4.8 to reproduce the original source code by hand. The app supports secure, ephemeral gro…
A developer released an open-source monorepo template for building AI-native applications on Cloudflare infrastructure, featuring strict TypeScript typing and pnpm workspace management to enable low-c…
Bots now generate most web traffic for the first time, with Cloudflare reporting automated traffic crossed 50% in June and now accounts for nearly 58% of all webpage requests. A separate report from H…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, held Oct. 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, will feature over 200 sessions across six stages focused on AI strategy, agentic systems, and enterprise transformation, with …
Independent builders should abandon the micro-SaaS model of selling generalized niche tools because AI has made such software easy to replicate and customer demand is consolidating into a few heavy pl…
Patreon cut 93 employees, about 20% of its workforce, on Thursday, but CEO Jack Conte insisted the layoffs are not because AI is replacing humans. Conte said the company needs a leaner cost base to na…
Patreon is cutting 93 jobs, or 20% of its workforce, in a restructuring aimed at flattening management and focusing on core priorities, CEO Jack Conte told employees in a memo today. Conte insisted th…
A developer built PromptZyo, a free AI prompt library for professionals, using Node.js, Express, EJS, and PostgreSQL, deploying it live on Railway in 30 days. The site serves structured prompts organi…
A backend developer in São Paulo built an AI agent to autonomously run his remote-job search and published the first four days of data, including the LLM bill. The agent discovered 360 roles from 11 s…
A developer has released a pnpm monorepo template designed for AI agents to safely build and maintain applications, using TypeScript with Zod, Cloudflare infrastructure, and tools like Claude Code and…
Cloudflare reported this spring that only 78 percent of websites have a robots.txt and fewer than fifteen sites on the entire internet have implemented some newer standards, prompting the company to l…
Cloudflare launched isitagentready.com, a tool that grades websites on how well they serve AI agents across discoverability, content accessibility, bot access control, and capabilities. Only 78 percen…