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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince revealed that he was informally approached to join Anthropic’s board but declined, noting he “wasn’t interested and wouldn’t have been a good fit.” To underscore his concerns about the company’s AI direction, he sent Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei and co‑founder Daniela Amodei a copy of Aristotle’s *Politics*, warning they had been “too busy to read it.” The exchange highlights the intensifying debate over AI governance, as Anthropic has pledged $20 million to bipartisan efforts for flexible regulation, while OpenAI’s Sam Altman has called for taxes on AI profits, expanded safety nets, and a public wealth fund. Senator Mark Kelly echoed the call for “commonsense guardrails” to protect workers, privacy, and security without stifling innovation, emphasizing AI’s potential to reshape economic opportunity, regional inequality, and political ideology.

Read more: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/26/05/52710678/matthew-prince-says-he-was-approached-for-anthropic-board-role

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Cloudflare CEO Says He Turned Down Anthropic Board Role - Cloudflare (NYSE:NET)

Cloudflare CEO says he was once considered for Anthropic's board and shared Aristotle's Politics amid AI governance and economic debate.

Benzinga

“Cloudflare has revealed it will farewell 1,100 staff, due to its current and future use of AI.

In a blog post that oozes Orwellian “doublespeak,” CEO #MatthewPrince and President/COO #MichelleZatlyn used the headline “Building for the future” to share the email they sent to all #employees

That mail opens: “We are writing to let you know directly that we’ve made the decision to reduce #Cloudflare’s #workforce by more than 1,100 employees globally.”

The post explains, “Cloudflare’s usage of #AI has increased by more than 600% in the last three months alone. Employees across the company from #engineering to #HR to #finance to #marketing run thousands of #AIAgent sessions each day to get their work done.”

#ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar < https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/08/cloudflare-to-fire-1100-staff-whose-jobs-just-arent-ai-enough/5235536> / source <https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/>

Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough

Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email

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Matthew Prince: Cloudflare-CEO soll vor Gericht erscheinen

Ein Untersuchungsgericht in Madrid hat Matthew Prince, den CEO von Cloudflare, aufgefordert, morgen persönlich vor Gericht zu erscheinen.

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Cloudflare vs Italie - Le bras de fer sur le Piracy Shield ne fait que commencer

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(19 Nov) Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size “I worry this is the big botnet flexing,” CEO said. But outage was self&#x2d;inflicted. https://s.faithcollapsing.com/bbd9x #biz-&-it #cloudflare #matthew-prince #outage #policy
Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size https://arstechni.ca/Uu2L #MatthewPrince #cloudflare #Biz&IT #Policy #outage
Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size

“I worry this is the big botnet flexing,” CEO said. But outage was self-inflicted.

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The Cloudflare Outage May Be a Security Roadmap – Krebs on Security

An outage like today is unacceptable. We've architected our systems to be highly resilient to failure to ensure traffic will always continue to flow. When we've had outages in the past it's always led to us building new, more resilient systems.

On behalf of the entire team at Cloudflare, I would like to apologize for the pain we caused the Internet today.

@cloudflare #MatthewPrince
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

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