2026-05-09: Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs despite record revenue, claiming AI made those roles obsolete

Show Notes - 2026-05-09 Stories Covered: - Today: (https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/cloudflare-says-ai-made-1100-jobs-obsolete-even-as-revenue-hit-a-record-high/) - Google Flow for small business ads (https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-announcements/the-small-brief/) - CyberSecQwen-4B: Local cybersecurity AI (https://huggingface.co/blog/lablab-ai-amd-developer-hackathon/cybersecqwen-4b) - ServiceNow alternatives guide (https://zapier.com/blog/servicenow-alternatives) - OpenAI's Codex safety playbook (https://openai.com/index/running-codex-safely) - Cloudflare's AI adoption timeline (https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/cloudflare-says-ai-made-1100-jobs-obsolete-even-as-revenue-hit-a-record-high/) - CyberSecQwen-4B: Free, Apache 2.0 (https://huggingface.co/blog/lablab-ai-amd-developer-hackathon/cybersecqwen-4b) - Meta and Google building AI agents (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/ai-agent-meta-google-agentic-wars-tech-download.html) - xAI partnering with Anthropic for compute (https://www.theverge.com/report/926771/microsoft-openai-amazon-worries-shit-talk-azure) - Akamai lands $1.8 billion AI infrastructure deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/akamai-stock-ai-cloud-infrastructure-deal.html) - Sony using AI for game animation (https://www.theverge.com/games/926914/sony-playstation-ai-powerful-tool-games) - HTML over Markdown for AI output (https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/8/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-html/#atom-everything) - Evaluate AI tools for automation, not magic Full brief: https://carolinacleartech.com/ai-brief/2026-05-09/