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Generates robots.txt from your dashboard AI crawler policy instead of a static file.

Cloudflare launched Adaptive Intelligence, which reads meta-signals from live traffic to mint short-lived bot-detection rules instead of relying on stable signatures. The stated aim is raising the per-attack tuning cost; the false-positive picture for API and non-browser clients is not disclosed her

Cloudflare made Python Workers generally available, giving Python first-class, fully supported status alongside JavaScript on its Developer Platform.

Cloudflare's Vinext 1.0 moves from AI experiment to a production-ready way to run Next.js apps on Vite, adding advanced cache warming, broader compatibility, an automated test pipeline and a project compatibility check.

Cloudflare opened a closed beta of its Monetization Gateway, which charges AI agents for consumption of tokens, APIs and MCP tools using HTTP 402. Four customers, including AI Gateway itself, already run it in production.

Cloudflare added a 'Disallow AI Training' toggle that blocks crawlers from training on a site's content while keeping it indexed for search, plus an 'Accountable' designation shared with Apple, Google and Microsoft.

Cloudflare introduces open-source Clef and Clef-flash decision models on Workers AI for high-speed classification and agentic workflows, plus an RL platform to fine-tune them on your own data.

Cloudflare released Auto Router in public beta in AI Gateway. An edge-deployed classifier judges request complexity and selects a model, trading expected output quality against token cost to reduce AI spend.

Cloudflare releases cf, an agent-oriented command-line tool that mirrors its whole API and supports TypeScript configuration, and open-sources Forge, the internal generator behind its SDKs.

Invite-only early access to a Cloudflare Managed Defense service that ranks scanner findings against production evidence: which routes are deployed, what traffic they carry, what WAF rules already block. Runs on OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Cyber and proposes edge mitigations plus source patches a human approve

Cloudflare now lets Cache Rules act on the Vary header directly: normalize known negotiation headers, forward exact values to origin, or bypass caching when variation is unpredictable, on every plan.

Cloudflare's Automatic Key Exchange probes each origin's TLS 1.3 capabilities and automatically negotiates the strongest available key-agreement algorithm, preferring post-quantum key exchange wherever the origin supports it, across 45 billion daily connections.

Cloudflare's bot and agent directory now has an operator-facing dashboard: submit a crawler or agent, track and edit submissions, and declare a behavior model describing how the bot uses the content it fetches — the mechanism that determines how sites treat your traffic.

Cloudflare AI Gateway User Insights now categorizes usage by task, model, turn and user to show AI adoption and model overuse, helping teams make model decisions. It is free for AI Gateway users.

Cloudflare's AI Search reaches general availability with image-pixel embeddings for visual search, OCR for scanned PDFs, 10 MiB file support and compatibility with any chat model.

Cloudflare open-sourced Forge, a pluggable CI pipeline that generates SDKs, CLIs and documentation from API definitions. Generation moves upstream into individual team repositories, so developer tooling stays continuously synchronized with the API.

Cloudflare ships EmDash 1.0, an open source CMS for Astro. It targets agent-friendly workflows, adds sandboxed plugins, and uses a decentralized registry so publishers keep control of what they install.