Fastly Inc. reported that its global network handled 1.8 billion viewers for the World Cup final, with gaming traffic dropping 18-20% below baseline while social traffic surged 25% in real-time spikes…
Fastly has joined Experian's Agent Trust ecosystem to help enterprises verify, authorize, and monetize legitimate AI agent traffic at the network edge, turning a security liability into a revenue oppo…
Fastly Inc. announced that its Image Optimizer now supports C2PA content provenance metadata version 2.4 for all customers at no additional cost, across all image formats except JPEG XL. This comes as…
Fastly has released Fastly Fiddle, a web-based tool that compiles and executes VCL on real Fastly edge nodes, enabling developers and coding agents to test VCL code against production infrastructure i…
Fastly Compute enables edge enforcement of x402 HTTP-native payment challenges for automated transactions, allowing services to require payment before requests reach the origin. The x402 protocol uses…
Google is quietly pitching publishers on a new AI program requiring broad rights to use their content for AI training or risk losing existing Showcase payments, but the explicit terms inadvertently gi…
Fastly has released version 0.13.0 of its Rust SDK with a new PendingRequest::send_to_client capability that hands off long-running backend requests from the Wasm guest to the host, freeing edge resou…
Fastly announced a prototype to secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, addressing AI-specific attack vectors, production-scale performance, and authentication complexity for a major global publi…
AI agents are beginning to search, compare, recommend, negotiate, and complete transactions on behalf of users, creating a new paradigm called agentic commerce. This shift requires common protocols fo…
AI systems are scraping publisher content to generate direct answers without driving traffic or revenue back to the source, breaking the traditional search engine bargain. Publishers face eroding refe…
Fastly developed a capacity planning model using the Gini coefficient, a macroeconomic metric for inequality, to predict edge infrastructure needs. The model outperformed machine learning approaches b…
Fastly and Skyfire have partnered to enable trusted agentic commerce at the edge, allowing businesses to verify and authorize legitimate AI agents before granting access to services and transactions. …
Fastly reported that AI traffic on its network grew 30% from January to May 2026, 6.5 times faster than human traffic, with autonomous machine-to-machine requests now approaching half of all internet …
AI-powered machine traffic now accounts for nearly half of all internet requests, growing 6.5 times faster than human traffic, according to new network data from Fastly. Businesses must develop strate…
Fastly released a beta Python SDK for its edge computing platform, enabling developers to run standard CPython and WSGI-based web frameworks like Flask on Fastly's global network. The SDK uses memory …
Fastly released an open-source JavaScript service for its Compute platform that automatically converts web pages into clean Markdown for AI crawlers, reducing bandwidth and parsing overhead. The servi…