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Matthew Prince

Matthew Prince is co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, the web infrastructure and security company behind its CDN, DDoS protection, and Workers platform.

Known aliases

  • @eastdakota
  • Matthew Prince

Current stories

productOne report1 publisher

Huskeys' new Profiling beta maps the web endpoints a business depends on

Huskeys, an edge security startup that has raised $35 million, put Profiling into beta to map the web endpoints a business depends on. It says results show up within hours, but the promise of fewer blocked customers is so far its own argument.

Reality

Evidence25
Adoption10
Hype gap+35
Incentives70
Confidence70
investConfirmed3 publishers

Zuckerberg says Meta will take a commission on Muse purchases as app tops 2.5 million US downloads in two weeks

Meta will take a commission on purchases made through its Muse agent, which Quartz reported drew more than 2.5 million US downloads in two weeks without giving any purchase counts. Walmart, Sephora, Expedia and Shopify are partners.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 37%
Investor
Investor 36%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption70
Hype gap+22
Incentives55
Confidence60
securityConfirmed4 publishers

Cloudflare's planned certificate authority targets Q1 2027 for post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates

Cloudflare plans to become a public certificate authority and start production issuance of post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates in the first quarter of 2027. Teams planning a post-quantum migration now have an issuer-side date to test web PKI against.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 45%
Operator
Operator 45%
Investor
Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption8
Hype gap+30
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

Cloudflare brings publicly built EuroLLM and Switzerland's Apertus to Workers AI

Cloudflare is adding EuroLLM, which covers all 24 official EU languages, and Switzerland's fully open Apertus model to Workers AI. Both come from public universities and research institutions, so teams with sovereignty requirements now have hosted models built outside the frontier labs.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption12
Hype gap+25
Incentives80
Confidence45
productOne report1 publisher

Cloudflare applies to become a certificate authority that issues post-quantum certificates in 2027

Cloudflare plans to become a public certificate authority and issue post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates from early 2027. Sites it fronts will manage both kinds from one system, so the planning work falls on old devices that will never add a new root.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption5
Hype gap+20
Incentives55
Confidence42
productOne report1 publisher

Mike Cannon-Brookes bets Atlassian's single platform will outlast AI chatbots

Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes told The Verge's Decoder that chatbots are not the future of work and pushed back on the feared SaaSpocalypse. His case depends on Jira and Trello holding the record teams agree on, and buyers will have to test that against their own renewal data.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+35
Incentives75
Confidence35
productOne report1 publisher

Cloudflare lets site owners admit only the AI bots that might pay

Cloudflare says bots are over half of internet traffic and lets sites block AI tools, allow them, or admit only those that might pay. With payment schemes still unsettled, picking one is a revenue bet made on the gatekeeper's own numbers.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives70
Confidence40
investOne report1 publisher

Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default from Sept. 15 after bots overtook human traffic

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says bots overtook humans on its network in May 2026, ahead of a Sept. 15 switch to blocking AI crawlers by default. AI companies would then need permission, or a per-crawl deal, to read ad-supported pages on the sites it covers.

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+40
Incentives70
Confidence35
buildOne report1 publisher

Cloudflare joins code findings to live route traffic before GPT-5.6 Cyber writes the patch

The invitation-only service takes read access to authorized repositories and ranks findings by whether the route is deployed, busy and already covered by a WAF rule, then proposes a fix, pre-checks it, and hands you the approval.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives80
Confidence60
productOne report1 publisher

Cloudflare turns OpenAI's cyber model into WAF rules that wait on human approval

The early-access service reads live traffic to work out which findings matter, then produces a scoped firewall rule and a draft patch for review, so the mitigation is what actually ships while the code fix waits on engineers.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption22
Hype gap+34
Incentives78
Confidence52
buildOne report1 publisher

Omarchy Itemises $12.6M in Patron Money as Omacom Foundation's Legal Registration Remains Unspecified

Omarchy's patron ledger names twelve individuals and two companies and adds up to the dollar. The nonprofit meant to hold the trademarks has no jurisdiction, entity or headquarters on the record, and that is the part a fleet owner should be pricing.

Publishers:runtimewire.com

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption47
Hype gap+24
Incentives74
Confidence55