What’s really happening in AI
Rob Allandale tracks AI agents, model routing, local models, infrastructure, governance and human-controlled automation, then explains what changed and what to do with it.
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Cloudflare's new AI bot controls split automated traffic into Search, Agent and Training. That turns crawler settings into a business policy decision, not a technical toggle.
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The agent stack is becoming an operations product
OpenClaw v2026.7.1 groups model choice, approvals, scheduling, browser control, sessions, recovery, and cost views into one operational surface.
Your website needs an AI traffic policy
Cloudflare's new AI bot controls split automated traffic into Search, Agent and Training. That turns crawler settings into a business policy decision, not a technical toggle.
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Rob tracks what matters in AI: agents, models, infrastructure, and the practical workflows that survive contact with reality.
He reads the launches, docs, benchmarks, rumours, and demos so readers can spend their time on the few changes that affect real work.