This post argues that Google's dual use of its search crawler (Googlebot) for both indexing and generative AI training gives it an unfair competitive advantage over publishers and rival AI companies.

AI Bots

Google

Legal

Policy & Legal

Cloudflare

01 min read

AI•2026-01-29

Introducing Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

This post introduces Moltworker, a middleware solution that enables running Moltbot (a self-hosted personal AI agent) on Cloudflare's infrastructure without dedicated hardware.

Cursor at Grab: Adoption and impact

This post details how Grab scaled adoption of the Cursor AI coding assistant across engineering and non-technical teams, sharing key metrics and productivity findings.

Engineering

Microsoft

01 min read

Machine Learning•2026-01-28

Diagnosing instability in production-scale agent reinforcement learning

This post identifies a late-phase instability mechanism in production-scale reinforcement learning for tool-using agents, caused by tool-conditioned variance amplification.

Engineering@Microsoft

Cloudflare

111 min read

Frontend•2026-01-16

Astro is joining Cloudflare

Cloudflare has acquired The Astro Technology Company, the team behind the Astro web framework, committing to its continued open-source development.

From deployment slop to production reality: How BriX bridges the gap with enterprise-grade AI infrastructure

This article introduces BriX, a platform that transforms AI prototypes into enterprise-grade production tools without requiring deep DevOps expertise.

Human Native is joining Cloudflare

Cloudflare has acquired Human Native, a UK-based AI data marketplace that transforms multimedia content into licensed, structured training data.

Machine Learning•2025-12-18

Inside the feature store powering real-time AI in Dropbox Dash

Dropbox Dash built a custom hybrid feature store to power real-time AI ranking across tens of thousands of work documents.

Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (Honk, Part 3)

Spotify shares how they designed reliable background coding agents ("Honk") using strong verification loops to minimize incorrect or broken pull requests at scale.

The Interaction Changes Everything: Treating AI Agents as Collaborators, Not Automation

This post presents a framework for treating AI agents as collaborative partners rather than automation tools, based on Microsoft's Entra SDK v1-to-v2 migration across hundreds of repositories.

Engineering@Microsoft

AI agent

Developer productivity

Dropbox

31 min read

Culture•2025-11-26

Building the future: highlights from Dropbox’s 2025 summer intern class

Dropbox's 2025 Camp Dropbox Intern Program welcomed 43 interns from 27 colleges across multiple countries for a 12-week program focused on meaningful engineering contributions.

Background Coding Agents: Context Engineering (Honk, Part 2)

Spotify shares lessons from building a background coding agent ("Honk") that automates large-scale code migrations by generating mergeable pull requests across thousands of repositories.

How Dash uses context engineering for smarter AI

Dropbox Dash evolved from a traditional RAG-based enterprise search into an agentic AI system, requiring a new discipline called context engineering to manage what information models receive.

With Mobius Labs' Aana models, we're bringing deeper multimodal understanding to Dropbox Dash

Dropbox has acquired AI startup Mobius Labs and is integrating their multimodal AI models, called Aana, into Dropbox Dash to enable deeper understanding of rich media content.

Machine Learning•2025-10-02

A practical blueprint for evaluating conversational AI at scale

This post outlines Dropbox's systematic evaluation framework for conversational AI, developed while building Dropbox Dash.

Hack Week 2025: How these engineers liquid-cooled a GPU server

Dropbox engineers built a custom liquid cooling system for GPU servers during Hack Week 2025, winning the Learn Fast award for accelerating innovation in infrastructure.

Enhancing Code Quality at Scale with AI-Powered Code Reviews

Microsoft's AI-powered code review assistant now supports over 90% of PRs company-wide, impacting 600K+ pull requests per month.

Engineering@Microsoft

Developer productivity