Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : Suno debuts Speech, which generates spoken voices with optional background music using scripts or prompts, in public beta, as its music product faces lawsuits — The new Speech feature provides synthetic voiceovers embellished with AI background music.
David Shepardson / Reuters : AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon form a JV that aims to expand US satellite coverage and eliminate dead zones, appointing industry veteran Paul Roth as interim CEO — AT&T (T.N), T-Mobile (TMUS.O) and Verizon (VZ.N) have appointed wireless industry veteran Paul Roth as interim chief executive …
Henry Belot / The Guardian : OpenAI says it learned this week that its AI agent hacked Australia's NSW state government in June, following a similar hack on Australia's federal government — Attack accessing historical data on bushfires occurred in June but not disclosed by the tech company until Thursday
Todd Bishop / GeekWire : Amazon plans to spend $1B+ over five years for infrastructure upgrades and other projects in US communities that host its data centers, amid a growing backlash — Amazon says it will spend more than $1 billion over five years in the U.S. communities where it builds and operates data centers …
CoinDesk : Tether's USDT stablecoin is set to return to the Bitcoin network through Tether-backed Utexo, which will keep most transaction data off Bitcoin's public ledger — “It's coming home,” Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino proclaimed on X last week, referring to the return of his company's stablecoin, USDT, to the Bitcoin network.
Wen Shao / Fortune : Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial work, raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5M — Halluminate, a nine-person San Francisco startup building AI training environments for financial work, has raised $30 million …
Michael Shepard / Bloomberg : US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024 — Federal prosecutors arrested a California man on Thursday on charges of smuggling computer servers containing $300 million worth …
Vanity Fair : A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions — The $200 billion software titan has suctioned himself to many hubs of influence—from data centers to TikTok to Hollywood studios to the Oval Office itself.
MBI Deep Dives : Meta may never need ads to monetize Muse, instead focusing on building trust in the near term and possibly monetizing it through merchant transaction fees later — Get the next one in your inbox. — A daily journal on business, investing, and technology. — It didn't take too long for the app layer to start to respond to Muse.
Financial Times : Sources: Amazon has held talks with investors about a deal to spin off $8B of Grace Blackwell chips into an SPV, then lease them back for its US data centers — Amazon is seeking to offload about $8bn of advanced Nvidia chips to external investors through a new vehicle aimed at strengthening …
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg : Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence — Nvidia's AI chips keep making their way to China despite US curbs. Officials are asking why the company missed red flags.
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B — Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally
Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters : OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents — OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents, according to a blog post by the ChatGPT maker …
Cloudflare said Tuesday it plans to issue quantum-proof TLS certificates, making it one of the first authorities to issue such certificates that use a form of cryptography that is widely believed to withstand attacks from quantum computers. The Internet infrastructure provider said it will use an open source platform that issues both classic TLS certificates and a post-quantum equivalent known as…
<img src="https://www.infoq.com/styles/static/images/logo/logo_bigger.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare has implemented native support for the HTTP Vary header across its edge network, enhancing cache management for all customer plans. This feature allows for better negotiation of content representations while minimizing cache fragmentation. Operators can define specific behaviors for request headers, enabling…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/09/cloudflare-worker-agent/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1790586440950.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare has introduced Worker Previews. This feature allows each Git branch to have its own isolated, production-like environment for a Worker. Each environment has a stable URL. It also has its own configuration and unique state for each branch. Plus, there’s scoped o…
<img src="https://www.infoq.com/styles/static/images/logo/logo_bigger.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare has made Python Workers generally available, built on PEP 783 and on socket syscalls implemented over the Workers connect API. The announcement carries no performance figures. A urllib3 maintainer questioned who supports the upstream work afterwards, and Wasmer's founder asked for cold-start numbers, citing a…
Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivot point for the internet — and now it turns out things are even wilder because of AI, and Matthew and Cloudflare are right at the center of it. Cloudflare foun…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/09/cloudflare-emdash-migration/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1788551109664.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare recently documented the migration of its main blog from WordPress to EmDash, the open source content management system developed internally. The new platform is designed to improve performance and caching, and it was tested to handle traffic of up to 7000 r…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/09/cloudflare-dns-cache/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1788755192272.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare redesigned the in-memory representation of its Big Pineapple DNS cache, reducing the per-entry footprint by 56% and freeing roughly 100 TB of working-set memory across its fleet. The Rust-based changes also increased cache insertion throughput by 43% and reduced l…
Malicious bots are growing at a startling pace as AI continues to expand. A new report from DataDome finds that from July 2025 to June of this year, bad automated traffic grew 124%. That’s nine times faster than human traffic growth during that period. AI traffic, meanwhile, increased more than 82%. The report, based on more than 1 trillion requests across 75,000-plus customer sites, offers one of…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/articles/modular-edge-computing/en/headerimage/modular-edge-computing-header-1789559793469.jpg"/><p>At multi-tenant SaaS scale, a monolithic edge worker creates deployment coupling and broad blast radius. The article presents a modular Cloudflare Workers architecture using service bindings, with image optimization as a worked example of per-tenant format negotiation…
Amazon fought AI shopping agents on two fronts on Monday. It blocked Muse, Meta’s new AI assistant, from Amazon.com. It also filed an amended complaint against Perplexity, accusing the company of misleading a federal appeals court. The block came first. People who sent Muse to shop on Amazon over the weekend began seeing a popup. […] This story continues at The Next Web
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/09/cloudflare-adlc-agents/en/headerimage/headerADLC-1789999617492.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare has introduced the Agent Development Lifecycle to enhance AI-driven engineering. The approach replaces the traditional SDLC, addressing bottlenecks in testing, deployment, and maintenance. Key components include automated software factories, dynamic orchestration, advance…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/09/cloudflare-automatic-key-exchang/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1789633148686.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare has replaced its static X25519 guess for origin TLS handshakes with per-origin measurement. HelloRetryRequests on scanned origins fell from roughly 52% to 3.7%, removing over 150 ms from p90 latency. Post-quantum connections completing in one round tri…
We run 21 AI agents in production at SaaStr. They have closed millions in revenue. They book meetings on Saturday nights, resurrect leads nobody had touched in six months, run the invoice and the collections follow-up, and write to Salesforce all day without asking anyone for permission. It’s so great and so disruptive, and now our human GTM team of 1.5 or so does as much or more than 6+ used to.…
I have spent most of my career on the defending side of this problem, and for years I could rely on one comfortable assumption: the number of people capable of scraping my clients' data at scale was small. Not because the defenses were good. Because the work was annoying. That assumption stopped being true, and I want to be precise about why — because "AI can scrape now" is a headline, not an anal…
by Jason Lemkin | AI App of Week, Blog Posts The Bottom Line: Sumble is a knowledge graph of what’s actually happening inside your target accounts. Not “does this company use Snowflake,” but which team uses it, who runs that team, how many people report to them, what they posted a job for 21 days ago, and what they’ve been quietly migrating off of since January. Built by Anthony Goldbloom and Ben…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/09/cloudflare-cache-transcoding/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1788763139924.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare recently described a prototype called Cache Transcoding that compresses eligible cache content, mainly uncompressed text such as HTML, JSON, CSS, and JavaScript, using Zstandard before storing it on disk. The hyperscaler estimates that the approach could p…
Frank Slootman is the only CEO in history to take three enterprise software companies public. Data Domain, then ServiceNow, then Snowflake. At their peaks those three were worth more than $200 billion combined. He took ServiceNow from roughly $100M in revenue through an IPO to $1.4B. He joined Snowflake out of retirement in April 2019 when it was worth $4 billion and led it to the largest software…
This week with Harry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and Jason Lemkin: rule-breaking as a product feature, the legal AI ceiling, agents that route around their own guardrails, and Anthropic walking from a multi-billion dollar deal after diligence. #1. Instinct and GrokBot Work Partly Because They Break Rules Public Companies Legally Cannot The new class of consumer agents (Instinct, GrokBot, and whatev…
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Nick Statt: Hello and welcome to Decoder , Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer. And I’m joined by our brand-new supervising producer, Greg Ott. Greg Ott: Good day, everyone. And Hi, Nilay. Nilay is here too. He is the person who hosts the show, and his name is also in the show. So it mak…
Carles Reina was employee #4 at ElevenLabs and its first go-to-market hire. He was also its first investor. He spent the first nine months selling enterprise deals by himself, then built the entire commercial org, and has now moved full-time to Baobab Ventures, the $15M solo GP fund he raised last year. He came on SaaStrAI’s CRO Confidential with Sam Blond, now founder and CEO at Monaco and previo…
So this is a seemingly simple post, and one with a title that is purposefully a bit binary. Yes, sometimes it’s OK to hire a CRO / VP of Sales that everyone loves. But not usually. At least 9 times out of 10, if everyone on the team loves a VP of Sales, it’s the wrong hire. And this especially matters because I often see CEOs picking between 2 final CRO / VP of Sales candidates. The one that’s mor…
Dear SaaStr: I’m Pretty Hands Off on the Sales Team. What Will I Learn Getting More Involved in Sales? The most important thing that you will learn is how businesses truly scale on the revenue side. You may think you know this intuitively, but you don’t: You may think sales organizations magically create revenue. They don’t. They maximize revenue opportunities. You may think sales organizations ar…
Eight months ago the market decided that AI was going to eat B2B software. Roughly $2 trillion of market cap came out of the group. Then it came back. The recovery at the index level is close to complete. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software ETF (IGV) closed September 3 at $106.81, up about 40% from its April low near $74. It gained 16% in August. State Street’s XSW software ETF hit an all-time high…
On June 29, 2026, Gavin Newsom signed SB 122. Effective January 1, 2027, California sales and use tax applies to prewritten software and SaaS, however it’s delivered. Downloaded, streamed, accessed in a browser. All of it. California was the last giant holdout. For three decades the state taxed software on a disc and not software in a browser. That line is gone. California now joins 20+ states tha…
This week on 20VC x SaaStr, Harry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and I went through Nvidia’s $96.2B quarter and its 70% forward guide, the $12.9B Hugging Face deal, OpenAI cutting off Cursor, the agent swarm that sat inside Hugging Face and OpenAI undetected for weeks, Cognition at $46B, Clay at $7B, Linear at $2.5B, and Salesforce going all in on multi-surface and outcome pricing. 1. Nvidia guided to…
I got the email the other day. Frank Holding Jr., Marc Cadieux and Jesse Hurley, letting me know that starting in early October, the rollout of a “united brand strategy” begins. And the SVB brand will now be retired. Translated: Silicon Valley Bank Technology and Healthcare Banking becomes First Citizens Innovation Banking. SVB Global Fund Banking becomes First Citizens Fund Banking. SVB Go become…
My son recently came to me to brag about using AI to find our ancestors. While the results were correct, I didn't learn anything new, as it stopped at my grandparents. I was never very interested in my genealogy, but I decided to see if AI would be a good tool for this. TL;DR: Yes, it is, and even more than that. In a little less than one month, I managed to gather more than 600 individuals and ge…