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Cloudflare Called 1,100 Jobs Obsolete on Its Best-Ever Revenue Quarter

Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs on May 7, 2026, the same day it reported a record $639.8 million quarter with revenue up 34% year over year. CEO Matthew Prince framed the cuts as a structural shift to an "agentic AI-first operating model," not a cost-saving exercise. Restructuring

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AI Was Supposed to Cut Marketing Costs. 42% of Teams Say It Made Them Spend More.

The sales pitch for marketing AI has been consistent for two years: automate the grunt work, do more with less, reduce headcount, shrink your tech stack, watch the savings roll in. Clean narrative. Easy to model in a budget proposal. The actual data tells a different story. A Semrush survey