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Cloudflare is making a push deeper into the AI agent space with something it's calling Cloudflare Computer — a product that gives AI agents access to a full browser environment rather than a sandboxed container. The idea is that agents need to navigate the real web the way humans do, and Cloudflare is betting infrastructure companies that solve that problem early will have a serious advantage.
The economics of AI are getting harder to ignore, and the BBC is digging into exactly that tension. Buyers of AI services are struggling to predict and control what they spend, while sellers are still figuring out what fair pricing even looks like. It's a classic two-sided market problem, and right now neither side has a clean answer.
And then there's Palantir, which just posted one billion dollars in profit in a single quarter — and CEO Alex Karp used that moment not to celebrate quietly but to go on offense, calling frontier AI labs too untrustworthy for enterprise use and labeling the broader AI industry, in his words, Marxist. Whether that's strategy or spectacle, it's a striking message from a company now firmly inside the AI establishment.
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