Wall Street has been looking for some good news, and Microsoft came through with its financial results for the third quarter of its fiscal 2025 as its cloud business – and to be specific, its non-AI cloud business – grew much more strongly than expected. …
AI Steady, Cloud Accelerating Gives Microsoft A Big Datacenter Boost was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One of the “great fears” advancing AI unlocks is that most of our jobs can, and will, be replaced by various forms of AI. Join us on this episode of the Hedge as Jonathan Mast at White Beard Strategies, Tom Ammon, and Russ White discuss whether we are likely to see a net loss, gain, or wash in jobs as companies deploy LLMS, and other potential up- and down-sides.
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You can now connect to Cloudflare's first publicly available remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from Claude.ai (now supporting remote MCP connections!) and other MCP clients like Cursor, Windsurf, or our own AI Playground. Unlock Cloudflare tools, resources, and real time information through our new suite of MCP servers including:
| Server | Description |
|---|---|
| Cloudflare Documentation server | Get up to date reference information from Cloudflare Developer Documentation |
| Workers Bindings server | Build Workers applications with storage, AI, and compute primitives |
| Workers Observability server | Debug and get insight into your Workers application’s logs and analytics |
| Container server | Spin up a sandbox development environment |
| Browser rendering server | Fetch web pages, convert them to markdown and take screenshots |
| Radar server | Get global Internet traffic insights, trends, URL scans, and other utilities |
| Logpush server | Get quick summaries for Logpush job health |
| AI Gateway server | Search your logs, get details about the prompts and responses |
| AutoRAG server | List and search documents on your AutoRAGs |
| Audit Logs server | Query audit logs and generate reports for review |
| DNS Analytics server | Optimize DNS performance and debug issues based on current set up |
| Digital Experience Monitoring server | Get quick insight on critical applications for your organization |
| Cloudflare One CASB Continue reading |
Today, we're excited to collaborate with Anthropic, Asana, Atlassian, Block, Intercom, Linear, PayPal, Sentry, Stripe, and Webflow to bring a whole new set of remote MCP servers, all built on Cloudflare, to enable Claude users to manage projects, generate invoices, query databases, and even deploy full stack applications — without ever leaving the chat interface.
Since Anthropic’s introduction of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November, there’s been more and more excitement about it, and it seems like a new MCP server is being released nearly every day. And for good reason! MCP has been the missing piece to make AI agents a reality, and helped define how AI agents interact with tools to take actions and get additional context.
But to date, end-users have had to install MCP servers on their local machine to use them. Today, with Anthropic’s announcement of Integrations, you can access an MCP server the same way you would a website: type a URL and go.
At Cloudflare, we’ve been focused on building out the tooling that simplifies the development of remote MCP servers, so that our customers’ engineering teams can focus their time on building out the MCP tools for their Continue reading
A lot of companies talk about open source, but it can be fairly argued that Meta Platforms, the company that built the largest social network in the world and that has open sourced a ton of infrastructure software as well as datacenter, server, storage, and switch designs, walks the talk the best. …
With Its Llama API Service, Meta Platforms Finally Becomes A Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Every business has its patterns, and so it is with Google and its hodgepodge of advertising and cloud computing. …
Google Cloud Revenues And Profits Flattening Out was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We’re continuing to make it easier for developers to bring their services into the AI ecosystem with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Today, we’re announcing two new capabilities:
Streamable HTTP Transport: The Agents SDK now supports the new Streamable HTTP transport, allowing you to future-proof your MCP server. Our implementation allows your MCP server to simultaneously handle both the new Streamable HTTP transport and the existing SSE transport, maintaining backward compatibility with all remote MCP clients.
Deploy MCP servers written in Python: In 2024, we introduced first-class Python language support in Cloudflare Workers, and now you can build MCP servers on Cloudflare that are entirely written in Python.
Click “Deploy to Cloudflare” to get started with a remote MCP server that supports the new Streamable HTTP transport method, with backwards compatibility with the SSE transport.
The MCP spec was updated on March 26 to introduce a new transport mechanism for remote MCP, called Streamable HTTP. The new transport simplifies how AI agents can interact with services by using a single HTTP endpoint for sending and receiving responses between the client and the Continue reading
A networking-focused entity known only as humblegrumble sent me the following question after reading my When OSPF Becomes a Distance Vector Protocol article:
How do A1 and A2 know not to advertise a Type-3 summary LSA generated from area 1 prefixes back into area 1?
He’s right. There is no “originating area” information in the type-3 LSA, so how does an ABR know not to reinsert the type-3 LSA generated by another ABR back into the area?
TL&DR: The OSPF route selection process takes care of that.
Imagine you decide to believe the marketing story of your preferred networking vendor and start using the REST API to configure their devices. That probably involves some investment in automation or orchestration tools, as nobody in their right mind wants to use curl or Postman to configure network devices.
A few months later, after your toolchain has been thoroughly tested, you decide to upgrade the operating system on the network devices, and everything breaks. The root cause: the vendor changed their API or the data model between software releases.
It is a tumultuous time for any agency in the US government or any company or organization that depends on the US government for a sizable portion of its funding or revenue. …
If NSF Snoozes, Then TACC’s “Horizon” Supercomputer Loses was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
I wanted to test a loop prevention when propagating summary LSA across areas scenario (more about that in another blog post) using the lab topology I developed for the When OSPF Becomes a Distance Vector Protocol article.
I started the lab with the FRRouting routers and configured OSPF area ranges. Astonishingly, I discovered that the more-specific prefixes from an area appear as summary routes in the backbone area even when the area range is configured. When I tried to reproduce the scenario a few days later, it turned out to be a timing quirk (I didn’t wait long enough), but my squirrelly mind was already investigating.
As I travel further north on the canals the mobile signal coverage is gradually getting worse so I decided to build a monitoring solutions to help with deciding where to moor. My initial idea was to use an Intel NUC or RaspberryPi with a 12v PSU, but then a friend told me about how he was monitoring his home lab using kubernetes on an old android phone, it sounded like the perfect solution.