Fastly launched the Autonomous Edge Defense Agent (AEDA) in Gemini Enterprise, an AI agent built with Google Cloud that pairs Fastly's live edge request telemetry with Gemini Enterprise's stateful rea…
Fastly expanded its Fastly for AI portfolio with AI Runtime Control and AI Firewall, tools the company says govern, protect, and control enterprise AI usage across its edge network. Fastly cited its o…
Fastly launched AI Runtime Control (ARC), a control plane that routes every application's model calls through a single Fastly-managed endpoint to govern access, attribute token spend, and enforce poli…
Fastly Bot Management and ContentGuard now cover AI scraper traffic hitting both origin servers and CDN cache, according to Fastly, which reported that AI requests on its platform grew roughly 6.5x fa…
Fastly introduced a new Challenge action for its Fastly DDoS Protection product, letting customers set automated mitigation to serve Dynamic Challenges instead of outright blocks during high-traffic e…
Anthropic announced the Model Hardware Specification (MHS), a shared specification for AI agents to safely operate physical devices such as robot arms, qPCR machines, and microscopes, initially previe…
Fastly's latest Threat Insights Report, "AI, Bots, and the Agentic Future of the Web," found that AI requests across Fastly's global platform grew 30% from January through May 2026, expanding 6.5 time…
Fastly has built a proof of concept on Fastly Compute that automatically injects WebMCP attributes into HTML forms at the edge, enabling AI agents to interact with web forms without developer changes.…
Fastly reports that between January and May 2026, AI requests grew 6.5x faster than human traffic, and in January 2026, unwanted bot traffic against SaaS and PaaS platforms was 22% higher than the glo…
Fastly Inc. introduced Fastly API Security, a two-part product combining API Discovery and API Enforcement to help organizations inventory and validate API traffic at the edge, blocking non-conforming…
Fastly Inc. released an example project demonstrating how to run Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on its Fastly Compute edge platform as WebAssembly binaries, reducing latency for AI agents by eli…
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…