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OpenAI's Astra and Cloudflare's Bot Defense — September 2, 2026
OpenAI's next model can find and exploit zero-day flaws on its own. Cloudflare's new bot filter retrains itself off a trillion requests a day. Offense and defense, both automated. We go through the deal quietly funding the power behind new AI data centers, the Kubernetes update that finally automates encryption key rotation, Cognition's fast-rising valuation, and a coding benchmark claim worth doubting.
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