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On 22 May, according to the Wall Street Journal, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince published a commentary article yesterday, revealing the logic behind the company ' s decision to downsize more than 20%. He stated that this reduction was not due to the business difficulties of the company, characterized it as a proactive restructuring of the business, and cited managementist Peter Drook ' s 1954 book " Practice in Management " as a framework for analysis. Prince divided the positions within the enterprise into three categories: the builder, the developer, the seller, and the market

On 19 November, according to various media reports, the global network infrastructure service, Cloudflare, suffered a severe technical malfunction late last night, which led to a massive loss of web sites, including social media platform X, AI service ChatGPT, music stream media platform Spotify. The event attracted widespread attention from users around the world, with thousands of people reporting through the monitoring platform Downdetector that they were unable to access services. Claudflare states that the failure is due to an "unusual surge" that caused some of the traffic through its web..

Cloudflare recently announced that as one of Meta’s first partners, they have launched Meta’s newly released Llama 3.18B model on the Workers AI platform. This move allows developers to start using this advanced AI tool on the first day of the model’s release. Llama 3.1 is the latest member of Meta’s Llama series of models, known for its outstanding performance in general knowledge, manipulability, mathematical operations, tool use, and multi-language translation. Highlights of this update include: Higher accuracy: The model uses…

Cloudflare on Wednesday gave web hosting customers a way to block AI bots from crawling website content and using data to train machine learning models without permission. It was based on customer dislike of AI bots and said to help protect content creators on the internet, the company said in a statement. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensing service provider Midjourney "We heard loud and clear that customers don't want AI bots to access their websites, especially those that do so dishonestly. To help, we added a...