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title: Birthday Week 2026 | Cloudflare
description: Follow every Cloudflare Birthday Week 2026 announcement.
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[ \## \[  Cut your AI spend with AI Gateway's Auto Router \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/auto-router/) 

\>  Cloudflare AI Gateway now features a model router that evaluates request complexity using an edge-deployed classifier to select the optimal model, reducing AI spend while maintaining performance. 

[ \## \[  Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402 \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway-beta/) 

\>  Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway lets eligible sellers charge AI agents for access to websites, APIs, MCP tools, and datasets using HTTP 402 payments. 

[ \## \[  Detect and send production issues straight to your agent \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/real-time-issue-detection/) 

\>  You can now use built-in error monitoring in Cloudflare Workers to group production failures and send stack traces, logs, traces, and application context directly to a coding agent to investigate further and open a pull request. 

[ \## \[  Simplifying domains for people and agents \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/simplifying-domains/) 

\>  Cloudflare Registrar's new search delivers fast, transparent results across 420+ extensions using Workers, Durable Objects, and WebSockets. Its expanded API and cf CLI also let agents search, register, and transfer domains. 

[ \## \[  Pay Per Use: when AI uses your work, you should get paid \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/pay-per-use/) 

\>  Pay Per Use is now in beta. AI companies report when they use publishers' content, and Cloudflare handles billing, payouts, and reporting, so our customers are paid according to use. 

[ \## \[  The Internet has a second audience \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/agentic-web/) 

\>  More than half the traffic reaching sites on Cloudflare is now automated, and AI agents are the fastest-growing part of it. We're giving site owners the tools to see who's visiting, decide who gets in, and charge for access. 

[ \## \[  Identify AI model overuse with User Insights \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-model-overuse-user-insights/) 

\>  AI Gateway User Insights now adds task, model, turn, and user categories to help teams understand AI adoption and make better model decisions. This is available free to AI Gateway users. 

[ \## \[  Cloudflare Impact reaches $100 million in donations \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/100-million-donations/) 

\>  This week, Cloudflare's Impact programs will reach $100 million in donated services. This milestone means that thousands of entities including journalists, civil society, state and local governments, election management bodies, and public schools are being protected from cyberattacks. 

[ \## \[  Cloudflare Containers, rebuilt to scale agent sandboxes \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/faster-agent-sandboxes/) 

\>  Cloudflare Containers now start 6x faster, let your agent choose each sandbox's image and instance type at runtime, and support filesystem snapshots in public beta, all controlled from a Durable Object. 

[ \## \[  Adaptive application security for the AI era: how Cloudflare connects code, traffic, and intelligence to stop attacks \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-era-framework/) 

\>  Cloudflare introduces an adaptive security framework connecting risk discovery, agent governance, runtime protection, and AI-powered response in a continuous learning loop. 

[ \## \[  We tested our own WAF with frontier AI models. Here’s what we found \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/adaptive-ai-waf-testing/) 

\>  We built a WAF tester that adapted each request based on what the WAF blocked or passed. This helped us explore variations that a fixed test might miss. We ran it across six attack categories on an authorized staging environment and discovered detection gaps worth fixing. Here’s how the loop worked, what got through, and what we did about it. 

[ \## \[  Introducing Threat Signals: agentic skills for open-source threat intelligence, free for every Cloudflare account \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/threat-signals/) 

\>  We are expanding access to Cloudforce One’s Threat Events Platform to every Cloudflare account and introducing Threat Signals. Threat Signals automatically parses open-source threat reporting, extracts structured indicators, and connects threat context directly to your WAF rules. 

[ \## \[  Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-certificate-authority/) 

\>  Twelve years after launching Universal SSL, Cloudflare is applying to become a certificate authority. By combining an established root, an ACME-first approach, and Merkle Tree Certificates, we are building a post-quantum CA for the open web. 

[ \## \[  Building a post-quantum certificate authority with Merkle Tree Certificates \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/pq-ca-with-mtcs/) 

\>  As post-quantum signatures threaten to inflate TLS handshakes and certificate transparency logs, Merkle Tree Certificates offer a path to compact, auditable authentication. Cloudflare’s new certificate authority will support MTC issuance at scale. 

[ \## \[  Is your domain using post-quantum encryption? Now you can see for yourself \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-visibility/) 

\>  Cloudflare has added visibility into post-quantum (PQ) encryption in TLS 1.3 directly into HTTP Analytics, Log Explorer, and Logpush. Learn how to make sure your domain is protected with PQ encryption. 

[ \## \[  Using AI to chart a course for our post-quantum migration \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-driven-cryptography-discovery/) 

\>  We’re building CryptoLabe, an internal AI-powered tool that discovers cryptography across our codebase, surfaces dependencies, and helps us progress toward a full post-quantum migration by 2029\. Here’s what we’ve learned so far. 

[ \## \[  Preventing quantum downgrade attacks against IPsec \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/ipsec-downgrade-protection/) 

\>  A sophisticated attacker with a quantum computer can exploit a protocol design flaw to downgrade post-quantum IPsec tunnels to classical crypto. We helped the IETF develop a transcript authentication extension to prevent these attacks. 

[ \## \[  Enforce positive security with Cloudflare Application Profiles \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/application-profiles/) 

\>  Cloudflare learns the structure of your HTTP requests and identifies deviations. You can add a positive security layer that helps reduce attack surface as AI makes it easier for attackers to generate and vary payloads. 

[ \## \[  Introducing Forge: the open source pipeline for generating SDKs, CLIs, docs, and more \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/forge-open-source-generation-pipeline/) 

\>  Forge is a pluggable, open-source pipeline that runs in CI to generate SDKs, CLIs, and documentation directly from API definitions. 

[ \## \[  Supporting native Rust in Workers with the new Emscripten target for wasm-bindgen \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/rust-workers-emscripten-target/) 

\>  Experimental Emscripten target support lets more Rust libraries and applications run directly on Workers, with Tokio async support coming next. 

[ \## \[  Introducing The Cold Start: pitch your startup live at Cloudflare Connect \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-the-cold-start/) 

\>  The Cold Start gives five early-stage companies five minutes on stage at Cloudflare Connect, with $500,000 in credits for the grand prize winner. 

[ \## \[  Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-cf-cli-launch/) 

\>  We are releasing cf, our new command-line tool that mirrors the entire Cloudflare API and supports programmatic TypeScript configuration. We are also open-sourcing Forge, our internal SDK generator. 

[ \## \[  EmDash 1.0: the stable CMS with a secure plugin registry \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-cms-plugin-registry/) 

\>  EmDash 1.0 is a stable, open source CMS built for Astro, with agent-friendly workflows, secure sandboxed plugins, and a decentralized registry. 

[ \## \[  Four months of VoidZero at Cloudflare: making the open-source JavaScript toolchain faster for all humans and agents \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-update/) 

\>  Since joining Cloudflare, VoidZero has delivered more than 80 releases that drastically speed up JavaScript compilation, linting, and testing. 

[ \## \[  How fast is the web? Explore billions of real-user measurements with BEACON \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-fast-is-the-web/) 

\>  Cloudflare is open-sourcing the BEACON dataset, making billions of anonymized Real User Monitoring (RUM) performance records publicly available on Google BigQuery. 

[ \## \[  Next.js applications, powered by Vite: introducing Vinext 1.0 \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext-nextjs-on-vite/) 

\>  Vinext 1.0 graduates from an AI experiment to a production-ready framework, letting developers run Next.js apps on Vite. This release brings advanced cache warming, broader compatibility, and an automated testing pipeline. 

[ \## \[  The road to the agentic browser: A Kitesurf update \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf-update/) 

\>  We've updated Kitesurf, our Workers-based browser for AI agents, with WebMCP support, improved DOM performance, and terminal-based rendering. 

[ \## \[  Cloudflare's 2026 Annual Founders' Letter \] ](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-2026-annual-founders-letter/) 

\>  As automated traffic surpasses human activity, Cloudflare's founders reflect on AI agents, new creators, and a fair, sustainable future for the web. 

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