Cloudflare AI Layoffs: 1,100 Jobs Cut as Shares Fall After Forecast Miss
Cloudflare plans to lay off over 1,100 employees worldwide—roughly 20% of its staff—as it shifts toward an AI-first strategy, the company said Thursday. Shares dropped more than 13% in after-hours trading, following a second-quarter revenue outlook that landed just shy of Wall Street’s expectations. Timing's key here. Cloudflare isn’t only offering artificial intelligence tools to its clients—it’s rolling out AI across its own workforce and operations, a move that goes beyond the incremental productivity promises other software and cloud players floated this past year. The company’s announcement landed together with quarterly numbers—better than the same period last year, but still short of what investors wanted.