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Security — One year later: the power of 1.1.1.1 interns

One year later: the power of 1.1.1.1 interns

A year after announcing our goal to hire 1,111 interns, more than 750 early-career builders have shipped real products across 48 teams at Cloudflare. From Birthday Week launches to post-quantum security, our interns prove that AI amplifies human potential instead of replacing it.

KRKelly RussellKelly Russell·October 5, 2026Security
AI & ML — ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review

ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review

We’re launching ReviewBench, a benchmark for code review agents built on representative GitHub pull requests, multi-source ground truth, calibrated evaluation, and production-aligned metrics.

MZMichelle Zhou·October 5, 2026AI & ML
AI & ML — Introducing Web Search API via AI Gateway

Introducing Web Search API via AI Gateway

Cloudflare AI Gateway now supports native web search API integration in partnership with Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup. Developers can now inject real-time web context into model inference calls via AI Gateway, REST APIs, or Workers bindings.

MCMichelle Chen·October 2, 2026AI & ML
SRE & Ops — 8 major updates to Cloudflare Observability

8 major updates to Cloudflare Observability

Cloudflare is launching eight major updates that bring logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards, querying, and telemetry export into one observability platform, with simpler and more predictable pricing.

NSNevi Shah·October 2, 2026SRE & Ops
Performance — 2026 Birthday week: network performance update

2026 Birthday week: network performance update

Cloudflare now ranks as the fastest provider across 74% of the top 1,000 global networks. By incorporating background telemetry from Cloudflare Challenge Pages, we have expanded our real-user measurement scale while maintaining user privacy.

LYLai Yi OhlsenLai Yi Ohlsen·October 2, 2026Performance
AI & ML — One year later: Sovereign AI and the fight for choice

One year later: Sovereign AI and the fight for choice

AI sovereignty is not a zero-sum game, but many governments now believe it is. Cloudflare's answer: more local open-source models, model-agnostic security tools, and a commitment to giving nations genuine choice.

CRCarly Ramsey·October 1, 2026AI & ML
Networking — Announcing Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

Announcing Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

Cloudflare K2 is a serverless event streaming service built directly on top of R2 object storage for high-scale data movement and long-term retention. By decoupling producers and consumers at the edge, K2 enables durable, ordered log streams without the operational overhead of traditional broker clusters.

MWMicah Wylde·October 1, 2026Networking
AI & ML — We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

Cloudflare is hosting a competition to see who will build the next Git platform for an era of AI agents. Artifacts is in open beta, with Workers bindings, data jurisdiction controls, and event subscriptions for repository changes.

DKDina Kozlov·October 1, 2026AI & ML
AI & ML — AI Search is now generally available

AI Search is now generally available

AI Search is now generally available. It embeds image pixels directly for visual search, runs optical character recognition on scanned PDFs, accepts files up to 10 MiB, and works with any chat model. Here's what's new and how pricing works.

GMGabriel Massadas·October 1, 2026AI & ML
Engineering — Cloudflare Impact reaches $100 million in donations

Cloudflare Impact reaches $100 million in donations

This week, Cloudflare's Impact programs will reach $100 million in donated services. This milestone means that thousands of entities including journalists, civil society, state and local governments, election management bodies, and public schools are being protected from cyberattacks.

PDPatrick DayPatrick Day·September 30, 2026Engineering
AI & ML — Cut your AI spend with AI Gateway's Auto Router

Cut your AI spend with AI Gateway's Auto Router

Cloudflare AI Gateway now features a model router that evaluates request complexity using an edge-deployed classifier to select the optimal model. By balancing expected output quality against token costs, organizations can dramatically cut AI spend while maintaining performance.

MLMing Lu·September 30, 2026AI & ML
SRE & Ops — Detect and send production issues straight to your agent

Detect and send production issues straight to your agent

You can now use built-in error monitoring in Cloudflare Workers to group production failures and send stack traces, logs, traces, and application context directly to a coding agent to investigate further and open a pull request.

TAThomas Ankcorn·September 30, 2026SRE & Ops
AI & ML — Simplifying domains for people and agents

Simplifying domains for people and agents

Cloudflare Registrar’s new search delivers fast, transparent results across 420+ extensions using Workers, Durable Objects, and WebSockets. Its expanded API and cf CLI also let agents search, register, and transfer domains.

ASAnkit Shah·September 30, 2026AI & ML
AI & ML — Identify AI model overuse with User Insights

Identify AI model overuse with User Insights

AI Gateway User Insights now adds task, model, turn, and user categories to help teams understand AI adoption and make better model decisions. This is available free to AI Gateway users.

AKAyush Kumar·September 30, 2026AI & ML
AI & ML — The Internet has a second audience

The Internet has a second audience

More than half the traffic reaching sites on Cloudflare is now automated, and AI agents are the fastest-growing part of it. We're giving site owners the tools to see who's visiting, decide who gets in, and charge for access.

MCMatthew ConroyMatthew Conroy·September 30, 2026AI & ML
Engineering — Summary of reading: July - September 2026

Summary of reading: July - September 2026

"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë - good writing, but the protagonists are quite something. There's barely a likable character in the whole story - they are all either crazy, evil, stupid or a combination of these. It's also remarkable to consider how small the world of some people in those times was …

EBEli Bendersky·September 30, 2026Engineering
AI & ML — Using AI to chart a course for our post-quantum migration

Using AI to chart a course for our post-quantum migration

We’re building CryptoLabe, an internal AI-powered tool that discovers cryptography across our codebase, surfaces dependencies, and helps us progress toward a full post-quantum migration by 2029. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.

SGSharon Goldberg·September 29, 2026AI & ML
Security — Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet

Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet

Twelve years after launching Universal SSL, Cloudflare is applying to become a certificate authority. By combining an established root, an ACME-first approach, and Merkle Tree Certificates, we are building a post-quantum CA for the open web.

SGSteve Goldsmith·September 29, 2026Security
AI & ML — We tested our own WAF with frontier AI models. Here’s what we found

We tested our own WAF with frontier AI models. Here’s what we found

We built a WAF tester that adapted each request based on what the WAF blocked or passed. This helped us explore variations that a fixed test might miss. We ran it across six attack categories on an authorized staging environment and discovered detection gaps worth fixing. Here’s how the loop worked, what got through, and what we did about it.

VGVikram Grover·September 29, 2026AI & ML
Security — Preventing quantum downgrade attacks against IPsec

Preventing quantum downgrade attacks against IPsec

A sophisticated attacker with a quantum computer can exploit a protocol design flaw to downgrade post-quantum IPsec tunnels to classical crypto. We helped the IETF develop a transcript authentication extension to prevent these attacks.

CPChristopher PattonChristopher Patton·September 29, 2026Security
AI & ML — The road to the agentic browser: A Kitesurf update

The road to the agentic browser: A Kitesurf update

We’ve updated Kitesurf, our Workers-based browser for AI agents, with WebMCP support, improved DOM performance, and terminal-based rendering. With over 730,000 Web Platform subtests passing, agents can now navigate complex sites faster.

CMCelso Martinho·September 28, 2026AI & ML
Engineering — Highlights from Git 2.56

Highlights from Git 2.56

The open source Git project just released Git 2.56. Here is GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

ENElijah Newren·September 28, 2026Engineering