In an April 11, 2026 X post, Cloudflare argued that protecting AI apps now requires more than rate limiting and pointed to its AI Security for Apps stack. The linked material shows Cloudflare is trying to make LLM endpoint discovery, prompt-level detection, and WAF-based mitigation part of the standard edge security workflow.
Cloudflare made AI Security for Apps generally available on March 11, 2026 and opened AI endpoint discovery to all customers, including Free, Pro, and Business plans. The launch adds custom topic detection and folds AI-specific controls into the company’s existing reverse-proxy and WAF stack.
On February 23, 2026, Anthropic said it detected large-scale distillation abuse tied to roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts and more than 16 million Claude exchanges. The company framed the issue as both a model security and policy challenge.