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Cloudflare's Clef, OpenAI's Firings, and Quicker Starts — October 2, 2026
Cloudflare open-sourced a decision model that answers in under forty milliseconds, and four other companies released competing versions in the same week. OpenAI fired three safety researchers for talking to an outside safety group. Same week, opposite directions. We go through Cloudflare's faster agent sandboxes, a researcher's attempt at Claude-shaped science, Meta's new fee on AI shopping purchases, Starlink's hourly connection passes, a coding tool's shift to MCP, and Amazon's sharper vector search.
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