A recent Cloudflare outage impacted numerous major websites for nearly six hours. However, Coursera, leveraging AI coding, restored its services much

Cloudflare Inc. has acquired Replicate Inc., a startup with software that makes it easier to deploy artificial intelligence models in production. The companies announced the transaction today without disclosing its financial terms. Replicate previously raised more than $23 million in funding from Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital and other backers.

What is Cloudflare? Why is NJ Transit, X (Twitter) and other major apps down? See the latest, what's going on.

Initially, Cloudflare engineers thought an attack was to blame, specifically the Aisuru botnet behind a massive 15.72 Tb/s attack revealed by Microsoft this week, which the hyperscaler dubbed the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud.

Cloudflare outage hit major platforms and tech stocks, with Nvidia, AMD and others falling as Nasdaq slid 1.2% and AI ETFs dropped over 2%.

Cloudflare stock closed the Nov. 18 trading session 2.83% lower at $196.53. The outage exacerbated the ongoing sell-off of the stock, and the closing price is 22.4% lower than the stock's peak closing price of $253.30 on October 31.

Hundreds of thousands of companies rely on the network management company to route online traffic. It’s the internet backbone that broke.

Leading internet security player Cloudflare is purchasing Replicate, a platform that makes deploying and running AI models easier.

Innovative Cloudflare Workflows now supports both TypeScript and Python, enabling developers to orchestrate complex applications seamlessly. With durable execution and state persistence, it simplifies the development of robust data pipelines and AI/ML models.