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Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding
We are launching updated community programs, including Cloudflare Ambassadors and Community Engineers, backed by $1M in open-source funding. Learn how we are supporting maintainers and scaling our developer community.
Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single AI control plane
Cloudflare is unifying AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single control plane, giving developers observability, billing, and dynamic routing across both managed GPUs and external providers. Learn how unified bindings and model-first routing simplify building resilient AI applications.
Does Kubernetes DRA Replace HAMi?
Projects that want to share a GPU on Kubernetes have to work around an API instead of with it. The device plugin interface could count devices, and that was the whole vocabulary: nvidia.com/gpu: 1. It meant one...
Shadow AI in CI/CD: Threat-modeling the path from developer laptop to Kubernetes
Artificial intelligence is becoming part of daily software delivery, often before it becomes part of the security architecture. That gap has a name: Shadow AI. It is any AI tool, model, agent, extension, or integration used...
How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory
Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service.
Concurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower
Increasing throughput sometimes requires reducing parallelism. A look into why this is the case for Vitess + MySQL databases
datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13
Release: datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13 Upgraded for compatibility with `sqlite-utils 4. Tags: datasette
datasette 1.0a38
Release: datasette 1.0a38 This release fixes a SQL injection security issue that affects Datasette instances that serve a mixture of public and private tables in the same database, with access configured using the Datasette permissions system . Site administrators who serve private tables in this wa...
datasette 0.65.3
Release: datasette 0.65.3 Back-ported the SQL Injection security fix from 1.0a38 . Tags: datasette
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never linked to the interview from my own blog! It includes my answers to the following questions: Why did you start blogging – and why do you continue? W...
The Read Path versus the Write Path: Strategies and Techniques
In this article, we will look at read path and write path operations and techniques in detail.
WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones
Open the source for the full engineering note.
How Tailscale mitigates the lethal trifecta
Keep AI agents useful without combining their riskiest capabilities.
Cloudflare AI Search: give your agents a search engine for your data
AI Search makes search easier than ever, with no Cloudflare primitives to stitch together. Point it at your data to create a search for your own files and websites. We're also sharing a preview of our new pricing model.
The next generation of MCP
The next version of MCP has a rewritten, stateless core that just works on Workers. We cover upgrades to the protocol, the new feature lifecycle and SDK migration path, and hear from early adopters already running it in production.
From ranking to recommended: get your site ready to thrive in the age of AI agents
More than half of requests now come from machines, not people. Agent Readiness shows how well agents can discover and read your site, while Answer Engine Optimization tracks how often AI assistants recommend you.
Building an open Agentic Internet: readable, discoverable, callable, and payable
Agents are a new kind of visitor. They don't render CSS or click ads, but they have a paying human on the other end. Block them and you block your customer. We're building the open tools and protocols so publishers and agents can cooperate and not collide.
Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers
We should be giving all agents tools that excel at what’s important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare’s new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud.
Give any website a WebMCP interface
Today we're launching a developer preview of WebMCP on Cloudflare. With one switch, any site becomes usable by browser AI agents — no new APIs, no origin changes — while the human stays in control and creators keep their traffic.
LitmusChaos Q1-Q2 2026 update: community, contributions, and project progress
About LitmusChaos LitmusChaos is an open source chaos engineering platform that helps teams identify weaknesses and potential outages in their infrastructure by running controlled chaos experiments. Built on cloud native principles, LitmusChaos enables teams to validate...
Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users
ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.
Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI
OpenAI and the American Psychological Association advance evidence-based guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use and youth mental health.
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing Stop me if you've heard this one before : An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday. Meta says the breach occ...
Discord Patch Notes: August 4, 2026
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
General Availability of Mobile Platform Support Arrives in Discord Social SDK Version 1.10
Mobile support is now generally available in the Discord Social SDK, allowing developers to extend Discord's social experiences to iOS and Android.