Lara Cohen 💅🏼
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Lara Cohen 💅🏼
@Larakate
VP Strategic Partnerships; Media, Creators & AI @Cloudflare. Former Global VP of Partners & Marketing @Twitter. Bay Area with a 917. Chronic over-packer.


I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.


NEW: Trump admin as soon as this week plans to announce that multiple countries have agreed to form a coalition that will escort ships through Strait of Hormuz, U.S. officials said. They are still discussing whether those operations would begin before or after hostilities end.

there’s reportedly a school inside the synagogue. pray for the children.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.

Sure sounds like somebody at DOGE took the Social Security numbers and personal information of every American on record, and put it on a thumb drive to bring home to Elon Musk’s AI company.


"Speed wins." "You have to be willing to commit to being fast. You can't have long bureaucratic processes. You can't have a risk-averse posture." @pmarca explains the OODA loop — and why the fastest operator controls the narrative in business, media, and politics: "There's a framework called the OODA loop, originally developed for fighter pilots and later for broader military strategy." "It stands for observe, orient, decide, act. It's basically the decision-making cycle." "If speed is the thing that matters, then the person who gets through that cycle the fastest is the one who's going to win." "If you can have a sustainably faster OODA loop processing cycle than the next guy — think about what happens… You operate and make a decision within an hour. The other guy is still inside his own OODA loop when you make your decision. He's only halfway through his process and now has to start over. You've changed the parameters of what's going on." "This is also a big explanation for what's happened in traditional media." "The New York Times has its own OODA loop, and it's like 24 hours to go through its process."


We want to clarify something: one of the motivations for building this feature is that building a crawler that respects crawling best practices is hard. Too many crawlers use this as an excuse not to abide by site owners' preferences, and respect directives like robots.txt. /crawl does this out of the box. Additionally, the /crawl endpoint cannot bypass Cloudflare's bot detection or Captchas, and self-identifies as a bot. It respects all the same protections available to operators today: AI Crawl Control, robots.txt, Content Signals and Pay-Per-Crawl. So, site owners can and should still choose how their content is consumed, and our /crawl endpoint will respect it.

We want to clarify something: one of the motivations for building this feature is that building a crawler that respects crawling best practices is hard. Too many crawlers use this as an excuse not to abide by site owners' preferences, and respect directives like robots.txt. /crawl does this out of the box. Additionally, the /crawl endpoint cannot bypass Cloudflare's bot detection or Captchas, and self-identifies as a bot. It respects all the same protections available to operators today: AI Crawl Control, robots.txt, Content Signals and Pay-Per-Crawl. So, site owners can and should still choose how their content is consumed, and our /crawl endpoint will respect it.

New: Microsoft files amicus brief in support of Anthropic complaint against Trump admin (h/t @JuliaShapero )









