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This week, host João Tomé is joined by Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic and former editor-in-chief of Wired, during his participation at Web Summit, the international event held in Lisbon with over 70,000 attendees. In this conversation, Thompson discusses the Internet, AI, social media, and the challenge of protecting content creators from AI crawlers—a problem Cloudflare’s AI Audit is designed to address. We also explore the 2024 media landscape, its future, and its role in supporting democracy.

Slow web traffic in mainland China? Speed it up with Cloudflare's China Network. Many developer platform products, such as Workers and Pages, are currently supported on the China Network.

Celso Martinho is a Senior Director of Engineering at Cloudflare. He works across multiple teams from Radar to Workers AI in our new Cloudflare Lisbon offices. In this conversation, host João Tomé and Celso discuss the rapid growth of Cloudflare Workers, simplifying life for developers, and the importance of observability in AI. Celso also dives into how the challenges for developers have changed since the 1990s tech era and why he believes the Internet is still in its infancy.

In this week’s episode, we look at patent trolls, what they are, and why a recent Cloudflare win also helps the industry to innovate. Host João Tomé is joined by Emily Terrell, Senior Legal Counsel, Litigation, and Patrick Nemeroff, Senior Director, Legal Counsel. We discuss how Cloudflare was sued by the patent troll Sable but emerged victorious. Sable was ordered to pay Cloudflare $225,000 and grant a royalty-free license to its entire patent portfolio.