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

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'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 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 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'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's Impact programs have reached $100 million in donated services, protecting thousands of organizations from cyberattacks. While not directly related to AI agents, this milestone highlights Cloudflare's focus on supporting public interest organizations.

Cloudflare introduced post-quantum cryptography visibility tools for domains to inspect and graph TLS 1.3 encryption adoption, enabling customers to audit their post-quantum posture and comply with regulatory frameworks.

Cloudflare introduces Threat Signals, an open-source threat intelligence tool using AI skills to automate threat analysis and indicator extraction for SIEM and WAF.

Cloudflare has released a new CLI called cf that provides access to the entire Cloudflare API, enabling agents to perform any action with Cloudflare. This CLI is designed for the next generation of software development and offers a unified interface for agents.