The IAB's September 2026 Outlook Study finds customer acquisition up nine points and 76% of buyers now focused on optimizing content for AI-generated answers — a shift with sharp consequences for founder-led businesses.
Continue reading →As of September 15, Cloudflare blocks Training and Agent crawlers by default on ad-bearing pages for all new domains and existing free-tier customers who never changed their settings.
As of September 15, 2026, Cloudflare blocks Agent and Training crawlers by default on ad-supported pages for new domains and every free-tier account that never changed its settings — reshaping which sites AI answer engines can see.
Three fine-tuned open-weight models — Smaug Agentic, Flash, and Mini — target long-running agent loops, with the company claiming 15–20% performance gains over their base models.
At its K:BOS conference in Boston, Klaviyo exposed 260+ MCP tools and 490+ APIs so agents inside Claude, ChatGPT, or custom systems can read, segment, and launch campaigns without anyone opening Klaviyo.