Official updates
Announcements from official sources, ordered by publication time.
12 updates · Last 30 days
October 19, 2026 · UTC
Cutting our inference bill by 68% by being obsessive about optimization
Cloudflare · Official · Company · Published
AI summary: Cloudflare cut its AI code reviewer’s average cost by 68% to $0.77 through prompt-cache reuse, fewer model calls, and model and effort changes, while reducing median review time.
Introducing Clairic, a new System One class of extraction models
Cloudflare · Official · Models · Published
AI summary: Cloudflare introduces Clairic, a preview System One extraction model that returns typed values, estimates, and forecasts from text or images in a single pass without generating output tokens.
Official article · Also seen on Hacker News
Beyond the patch: Protecting your NetScaler gateway against future vulnerabilities
Cloudflare · Official · Company · Published
AI summary: The post recommends placing independent access controls, WAF inspection, and origin restrictions in front of NetScaler gateways to reduce exposure while patches are deployed and beyond.
October 16, 2026 · UTC
Continuous accountability for Verified bots
Cloudflare · Official · Company · Published
AI summary: Cloudflare introduces continuous evaluation of Verified bots, combining authenticated identity with observed behavior to measure whether bots consistently respect website preferences and earn trust over time.
October 15, 2026 · UTC
A fully programmable secure web gateway
Cloudflare · Official · Company · Published
AI summary: Cloudflare introduces programmable Gateway and DLP capabilities that run customer code inline at the edge, enabling traffic transformation, custom policy evaluation, and organization-specific data validation.
Deploy with Void
Cloudflare · Official · API & tools · Published
AI summary: Cloudflare introduces Void, an open-source Vite-based toolchain combining full-stack application development, typed data access, resource provisioning, team deployment, and Cloudflare hosting.
Cloudflare and OpenAI: Making AI discovery better for everyone
Cloudflare · Official · Company · Published
AI summary: Cloudflare and OpenAI report that a pilot using Cloudflare network signals helped ChatGPT discover and index hundreds of millions of previously unknown pages more efficiently.
October 14, 2026 · UTC
Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move
Cloudflare · Official · Company · Published
AI summary: Cloudflare’s analysis of Yandex’s outage found that verified search crawling declined, while malicious automation largely migrated to other Russian hosting providers instead of disappearing.
Inside Hyperdrive: How we solved a rare Hyperdrive MySQL caching bug
Cloudflare · Official · Company · Published
AI summary: Cloudflare describes the MySQL caching bug fixed before Hyperdrive’s general availability, caused by incompatible cached response formats between Client and Endpoint nodes sharing a datacenter cache.
October 13, 2026 · UTC
Under the hood, off the hot path: How D1 scales to millions of databases
Cloudflare · Official · Company · Published
AI summary: Cloudflare describes redesigning D1’s control plane to support millions of SQLite databases while keeping query traffic off centralized, single-region components.
Rewinding the exponential: How we keep hardware usage down
Cloudflare · Official · Company · Published
AI summary: Cloudflare describes pipeline changes that reduced backbone traffic by about 70 GB/s, delaying projected hardware growth by roughly eight months while maintaining analytics capabilities.
October 12, 2026 · UTC
Filter, reshape, and redact logs before export with Transformers
Cloudflare · Official · Company · Published
AI summary: Cloudflare Transformers adds SQL-based filtering, redaction, and reshaping to Logpush’s export pipeline, executing queries in-process with Apache DataFusion to avoid a separate processing service or network hop.