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Ryan welcomes Stephen Watt, distinguished engineer and VP of Red Hat’s Office of the CTO, to chat about digital sovereignty and sovereign AI.
Retention policies no longer delete the latest preview deployment for branches with open or unmerged pull requests. Previously, deployments for active branches could be removed if they exceeded the configured retention window. This means you can safely use shorter retention windows without risking losing active preview deployments. This change applies to all plans. Your 10 most recent production deployments and any aliased deployments continue to be preserved regardless of retention settings. Le
Zo Computer on Vercel Death by a thousand adapters AI SDK + AI Gateway: two layers, one integration 20x improvement in reliability Scaling to a million personal cloud owners 20x reduction in retry rate (7.5% → 0.34%) 99.93% chat success rate (up from 98%) P99 latency cut 38% (131s → 81s) New models added in less than 1 minute Average latency improved 25.7% P95: 46s → 34s (25% improvement) P99: 131s → 81s (38% improvement) Every company has servers that store data, run services, and do
MCP server portals display a homepage when users visit the portal domain in a browser. The homepage shows: The portal name and organization branding The MCP endpoint URL with a copy button Per-client connection instructions for Claude Desktop, Workers AI Playground, OpenCode, Windsurf, and other MCP clients Authenticated users see their email address and a Sign out button. Selecting Sign out revokes all portal-level OAuth grants, deletes upstream server OAuth states, and redirects through Cloud
Cloudflare's network now supports redirecting verified AI training crawlers to canonical URLs when they request deprecated or duplicate pages. When enabled via AI Crawl Control > Quick Actions, AI training crawlers that request a page with a canonical tag pointing elsewhere receive a 301 redirect to the canonical version. Humans, search engine crawlers, and AI Search agents continue to see the original page normally. This feature leverages your existing <link rel="canonical"> tags. No additional
AI Crawl Control now includes new tools to help you prepare your site for the agentic Internet—a web where AI agents are first-class citizens that discover and interact with content differently than human visitors. Content Format insights The Metrics tab now includes a Content Format chart showing what content types AI systems request versus what your origin serves. Understanding these patterns helps you optimize content delivery for both human and agent consumption. Directives tab (formerly Rob
You can now achieve higher cache HIT rates and reduce origin load for origins hosted on public cloud providers with Smart Tiered Cache. By setting a cloud region hint for your origin, Cloudflare selects the optimal upper-tier data center for that cloud region, funneling all cache MISSes through a single location close to your origin. Previously, Smart Tiered Cache could not reliably select an optimal upper tier for origins behind anycast or regional unicast networks commonly used by cloud provid
Radar adds three new features to the AI Insights page, expanding visibility into how AI bots, crawlers, and agents interact with the web. Adoption of AI agent standards The AI Insights page now includes an adoption of AI agent standards widget that tracks how websites adopt agent-facing standards. The data is filterable by domain category and updated weekly on Mondays. This data is also available through the Agent Readiness API reference. URL Scanner reports now include an Agent readiness tab t
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