
Cloudflare Just Told You What AI Is Actually For
Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs the same week it posted record revenue. The pitch isn't austerity. It's something more honest, and more unsettling.
Senior Writer, AI & Tech
Maya Okonkwo writes about artificial intelligence and the tools shaping how the rest of us work. Before joining the staff she covered enterprise software at a trade publication you've probably never heard of, which she swears taught her more than any j-school could. She's broken stories on three product launches that the companies in question would rather you forgot. Based in London, raised in Lagos. Skeptical by training.

Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs the same week it posted record revenue. The pitch isn't austerity. It's something more honest, and more unsettling.

Palisade's paper is genuinely interesting research. The press release wrapped around it is doing something else entirely — and that's the part worth paying attention to.

Everyone's still benchmarking coding models. Cursor figured out the benchmark doesn't matter — the editor is the product, and the editor is the moat.
Two deprecation notices and a quiet edit to the API docs. The model lineup is being rebuilt and the cheap tier is gone.
Anysphere's editor doesn't win on the model. It wins on a UX assumption everyone else got wrong.
Seven days. Real bylines. The token bill was lower than the coffee bill, but the editor still earned every penny.