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Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!

2025-07-01

It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content....

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Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!

The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers

2025-07-01

RadarInternet TrafficAIBots

Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This helps site owners make decisions about which AI bots to allow or block. ...

Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content

2025-07-01

AIBotsImpact

Cloudflare is making it easier for publishers and content creators of all sizes to prevent their content from being scraped for AI training by managing robots.txt on their behalf. ...

Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access

2025-07-01

AI BotsBotsAIBot Management

Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content. ...

From Googlebot to GPTBot: who’s crawling your site in 2025

2025-07-01

AIRadarAI BotsBots

From May 2024 to May 2025, crawler traffic rose 18%, with GPTBot growing 305% and Googlebot 96%....

Message Signatures are now part of our Verified Bots Program, simplifying bot authentication

2025-07-01

ResearchBotsBot ManagementAI BotsCryptography

Bots can start authenticating to Cloudflare using public key cryptography, preventing them from being spoofed and allowing origins to have confidence in their identity....

Celebrate Micro-Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises Day with Cloudflare

2025-06-27

SecurityDevelopersFreeImpact

To celebrate United Nations Micro, Small, and Medium Sized Enterprises Day, Cloudflare is sharing success stories of small businesses building and growing on our platform....

Russian Internet users are unable to access the open Internet

2025-06-26

Internet ShutdownRussiaPolicy & Legal

Since June 9, 2025, Internet users located in Russia and connecting to the open Internet have been throttled by Russian Internet Service Providers (ISPs)....

Orange Me2eets: We made an end-to-end encrypted video calling app and it was easy

2025-06-26

ResearchPrivacyEncryptionVideoCloudflare Realtime

Orange Meets, our open-source video calling web application, now supports end-to-end encryption using the MLS protocol with continuous group key agreement....

Building agents with OpenAI and Cloudflare’s Agents SDK

2025-06-25

AIAgentsCloudflare WorkersDevelopers

We’re building AI agents where logic and reasoning are handled by OpenAI’s Agents SDK, and execution happens across Cloudflare's global network via Cloudflare’s Agents SDK. ...

Containers are available in public beta for simple, global, and programmable compute

2025-06-24

Cloudflare WorkersContainersDevelopersAI

Cloudflare Containers are now available in public beta. Deploy simple, global, and programmable containers alongside your Workers. ...

Everything you need to know about NIST’s new guidance in “SP 1800-35: Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture”

2025-06-19

Zero TrustCloudflare Zero TrustPublic SectorNISTComplianceSecurity

We read NIST’s new guidance on “Implementing a Zero-Trust Architecture” so that you don’t have to. Read this to get the key points on the newly-released NIST Special Publication 1800-35. ...

Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

2025-06-19

DDoSDDoS Reports

In mid-May 2025, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps)....

Cloudflare Log Explorer is now GA, providing native observability and forensics

2025-06-18

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We are happy to announce the General Availability of Cloudflare Log Explorer, a powerful product designed to bring observability and forensics capabilities directly into your Cloudflare dashboard....

Connect any React application to an MCP server in three lines of code

2025-06-18

AIAgentsMCPCloudflare WorkersDevelopers

We're open-sourcing use-mcp, a React library that connects to any MCP server in just 3 lines of code, as well as our AI Playground, a complete chat interface that can connect to remote MCP servers. ...

Cloudflare service outage June 12, 2025

2025-06-12

OutagePost Mortem

Multiple Cloudflare services, including Workers KV, Access, WARP and the Cloudflare dashboard, experienced an outage for up to 2 hours and 28 minutes on June 12, 2025....

Celebrating 11 years of Project Galileo’s global impact

2025-06-12

Project GalileoImpactSecurity

June 2025 marks the 11th anniversary of Project Galileo, Cloudflare’s effort to protect vulnerable public interest organizations from cyber threats....

We shipped FinalizationRegistry in Workers: why you should never use it

2025-06-11

Cloudflare WorkersWebAssemblyJavaScript

Cloudflare Workers now support FinalizationRegistry, but just because you can use it doesn’t mean you should....

Building an AI Agent that puts humans in the loop with Knock and Cloudflare’s Agents SDK

2025-06-03

AIAgentsCloudflare WorkersDurable ObjectsDeveloper PlatformDevelopers

How Knock shipped an AI Agent with human-in-the-loop capabilities with Cloudflare’s Agents SDK and Cloudflare Workers....

Cloudflare named a Strong Performer in Email Security by Forrester

2025-05-30

ForresterEmail Security

Forrester has recognized Cloudflare Email Security as a Strong Performer in the ‘current offering’ category in “The Forrester Wave™: Email, Messaging, And Collaboration Security Solutions....