Cloudflare has updated Quick Tunnels to allow agents to add email authentication and access control, making it easier to share local services securely.

Cloudflare's new Account Abuse Protection dashboard helps website owners detect and investigate account abuse by providing a stateful trust model that considers historical behavior, network, and device patterns. The dashboard allows fraud teams to view suspicious trends, identify affected accounts, and prioritize manual reviews.

Cloudflare launches Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway, a paid add-on to enable Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) traffic for app backends, providing privacy-preserving infrastructure for developers.

Cloudflare introduces Cloudflare Traces, an open beta feature that enables automatic tracing of requests across their platform, providing visibility into security rules, transformations, cache decisions, routing, Worker execution, and origin handling.

Cloudflare has launched eight major updates to its observability platform, including logs, traces, analytics, and alerts, with simpler pricing and a unified API. This will help developers and operators gain a more complete view of their applications and resolve issues more efficiently.

Cloudflare introduces Web Search API via AI Gateway, enabling agents to search the internet and access live information, improving the accuracy and relevance of AI models.

Cloudflare released Streamline, a developer playground that demonstrates building custom video pipelines using Cloudflare Stream and Workers. It showcases how to create dynamic video experiences with livestreams, subtitles, and more, using Containers, media protocols, and Workers.

Cloudflare's AI Search is now generally available, providing a fully managed index and retrieval pipeline with multimodal support, including native image embeddings and OCR for PDFs. This allows for more accurate and detailed searches, especially for products, screenshots, and scanned documents.

Cloudflare challenges developers to build the next-gen Git platform for agent-based development, leveraging their Artifacts versioned filesystem and Workers.

Cloudflare OS is a managed platform for AI agents that provides a custom workspace for organizations, allowing them to connect to their data and systems. It has been expanded with new features, including mounting Git repos, working with code, and exporting work in various formats.

Cloudflare introduces Workers KV Instant, a new mode for Workers KV that provides instant availability and low-latency access to data, powered by the Quicksilver key-value store. It offers 100 times faster p99 reads and immediate updates, with no need to wait for a TTL to expire, making it ideal for reading data in the hot path of applications.

Cloudflare announces two new open-source language models, EuroLLM and Apertus, developed by European research institutions, to promote choice and sovereignty in AI. The models are available on Workers AI and designed to work with any model, focusing on accessibility and multilingual support.

Cloudflare releases Clef, an open-source decision model for AI agents, with a vision encoder and 64k context window, outperforming Jev and other decision models on various benchmarks.

Cloudflare reports a significant increase in AI agent traffic on the internet, surpassing human traffic for the first time. This shift impacts website revenue, as automated requests often don't lead to ad impressions or subscriptions. Cloudflare recommends catering to agents instead of blocking them, as this can lead to a new business model.

Cloudflare has rearchitected its Containers to improve performance and flexibility for AI agent workloads. The changes enable agents to create sandboxes on demand, choose image and instance type at runtime, and start containers 6x faster. This is a significant improvement for developers building and operating AI agents.

Cloudflare's User Insights now shows model overuse and capabilities, helping teams identify and address inefficient AI model usage.

Cloudflare introduces Pay Per Use, a system that enables publishers to get paid for their content when it's used by AI products. Publishers can choose which programs to join, define the use they want to be paid for, and set a price. AI companies can access and index content with permission, and payment is handled by Cloudflare.

Cloudflare has launched a Monetization Gateway beta, allowing sellers to charge AI agents for access to resources via HTTP 402 Payment Required status code. This enables sellers to monetize their resources and align their business models with agent consumption patterns.

Cloudflare Registrar has revamped its domain search experience, now showing exact search terms across all supported extensions as you type. The new search also includes registered domains and allows filtering by availability.

Cloudflare introduces Issues, a built-in error monitoring feature for Cloudflare Workers that allows developers to detect and send production issues directly to their coding agents.