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Bloodbath at Silicon Valley giant as CEO’s savage memo to staff emerges

Nypost · · 381 words · By Nina Joudeh
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8 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Cloudflare is axing more than 1,100 employees in a worldwide bloodbath”
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Multiple independent sources (Business Insider, and other web search results) confirm Cloudflare is laying off more than 1,100 employees.
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web search NEUTRAL — Cloudflare, Inc. is an American technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that provides a range of internet services, including content delivery network (CDN) services, cloud cybe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare
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web search NEUTRAL — Cloudflare is laying off more than 1,100 employees as the cybersecurity company says it is reorganizing for the "agentic AI era," according to a memo sent to staff on Thursday.
https://www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare-announces-1100-la…
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web search NEUTRAL — Discover videos related to fired cloudflare on TikTok. See more videos about How to Use Sinucleanse Breathe Micro Filtered, How to Unlock Chevy Suburban with Slim Jim, Beetle Juice Kadarius Toney Fals…
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/fired-cloudflare
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“Founders told staff that the company’s internal use of artificial intelligence has exploded more than 600% in just three months.”
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The claim that internal AI usage increased by more than 600% in three months is confirmed by both a news report and the Motley Fool's earnings call transcript.
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web search NEUTRAL — Cloudflare Inc. plans to cut more than 1,100 jobs globally as it accelerates its shift to an agentic AI-first operating model. "Cloudflare's usage of AI has increased by more than 600% in the ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-07/cloudflar…
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web search NEUTRAL — Cloudflare said on Thursday it would lay off about 20% of its workforce as part of a shift toward an "agentic AI-first operating model," as the internet services company restructures around ...
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cu…
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web search NEUTRAL — AI and Developer Usage -- Internal usage of AI increased 600% in three months, 97% of engineers use AI coding tools, and the developer platform gained 1 million new developers for a total of 5.5 ...
https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2026/05/07/cl…
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“The internet security and cloud networking firm revealed the massive cuts Thursday alongside first-quarter revenue of $639.8 million, a 34% increase from a year earlier”
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The revenue figure of $639.8 million and the 34% year-over-year growth are confirmed by financial reporting sources in the web results.
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web search NEUTRAL — That represented 34% growth year-over-year and beat estimates of $591.3 million. Earnings came in at $0.28 per share, topping the $0.27 Wall Street consensus.
https://parameter.io/cloudflare-net-stock-rallies-16-after-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — Reconciliation of year-over-year revenue growth as reported on a GAAP basis to revenue growth on an organic constant currency basis is presented in the table below: Three Months Ended. March 31, 2026.
https://investors.epam.com/news/news-details/2026/EPAM-Repor…
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web search NEUTRAL — Last quarter, customers grew 21% year over year to 208,000, and revenue grew by 52% to $447 million. Its customers are spending more every year, as its enviable dollar-based net expansion rate of 137%…
https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/02/07/3-tech-stocks-to-b…
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“workers across engineering, HR, finance, and marketing now run “thousands of AI agent sessions each day.””
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While the general shift to AI is corroborated, the specific detail about 'thousands of AI agent sessions each day' across those specific departments is not explicitly repeated across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence.
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web search NEUTRAL — Cloudflare, Inc. is an American technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that provides a range of internet services, including content delivery network (CDN) services, cloud cybe…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare
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web search NEUTRAL — Make employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost.
https://www.cloudflare.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 13, 2026 · Cloudflare Acquires Astro to Accelerate the Future of High-Performance Web Development Cloudflare Announces Date of Fourth Quarter 2025 Financial Results Cloudflare Strengthens Content …
https://www.cloudflare.net/news/default.aspx
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“The company, founded in 2009, had 5,156 full-time employees at the end of 2025”
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Wikipedia confirms the 2009 founding date, and a news source explicitly mentions the company had 5,156 full-time employees at the end of last year (2025).
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web search NEUTRAL — Cloudflare was founded in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway, and Michelle Zatlyn.Cloudflare introduced the Cloudforce One threat events platform in March 2025, offering real-time insights into cybe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare
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web search NEUTRAL — Make employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost.
https://www.cloudflare.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing c…
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudflare
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“Departing workers are being offered unusually generous severance packages, including full base pay through the end of 2026, continued US health care coverage through year’s end, and equity vesting through Aug. 15”
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The Cloudflare Blog and other reports confirm the generous severance including base pay through 2026 and US healthcare through the end of the year.
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web search NEUTRAL — Cloudflare on Thursday announced layoffs of 1,100 staff as it reorganizes for "the agentic AI era."First-quarter earnings exceeded expectations, but Cloudflare shares dropped over 14% after hours.Read…
https://www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare-announces-1100-la…
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web search NEUTRAL — The packages for departing employees will include the equivalent of their full base pay through the end of 2026. Healthcare coverage is different across the globe, and if you’re in the United States, …
https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/
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web search NEUTRAL — A typical severance package includes both a severance agreement and severance pay. This is done to provide the employee with certain financial benefits (payments of money, medical coverage, etc.) in e…
https://drewlewis.law/severance-package-negotiation-how-to-g…
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“The company said it expects to take on $140 million to $150 million in restructuring-related charges”
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A news source explicitly states that Cloudflare expects charges between $140 million and $150 million associated with the job cuts.
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web search NEUTRAL — Quora is a place to gain and share knowledge. It's a platform to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers. This empowers people to learn from each other…
https://www.quora.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Agntbase now has a real MCP endpoint, OAuth discovery, Agent Card, API catalog, skills index, markdown for agents, and a safe checkout handoff. So an agent can prepare the path to payment, but it cann…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ivan-kononenko-a32677192_a-sm…
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web search NEUTRAL — About one year into its restructuring plan, Under Armour increased the amount it expects to invest for a second time. In October 2017, the company said it expected to take between $140 million and $15…
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/07/27/under-armour-inc-s…
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“Cloudflare said the restructuring should be substantially complete by the end of the third quarter”
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Both the official financial results announcement and independent news reports confirm the restructuring should be substantially complete by the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2026.
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web search NEUTRAL — Cloudflare, which had 5,156 full-time employees at the end of last year, expects charges between $140 million and $150 million associated with the job cuts in the second quarter.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cu…
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web search NEUTRAL — We expect that the majority of the restructuring charges will be incurred in the second quarter of fiscal 2026, and that the execution of the plan will be substantially complete by the end of the thir…
https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2026/cloudfl…
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web search NEUTRAL — The layoffs are expected to be substantially complete by the end of the third quarter. Shares tumbled 13% to $224 in after-hours trading Thursday. The stock closed up 3.3% at $256.79, up 30% this ...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/cloudflare-to-slas…
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