{"id":1007446,"date":"2026-05-11T10:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007446"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:04:34","slug":"cloudflares-slowing-growth-disappoints-investors-betting-on-ai-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/11\/cloudflares-slowing-growth-disappoints-investors-betting-on-ai-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudflare&#8217;s slowing growth disappoints investors betting on AI boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudflare shares tumbled more than 15% in premarket trading on Friday, after its quarterly revenue forecast disappointed investors who had bet the stock would be a major beneficiary in the race to adopt artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>The networking and cybersecurity services provider will also lay off about 20% of staff due to \u200cgreater use of \u2060AI \u2060tools, a move that Jefferies said could hurt near-term growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudflare shares tumbled more than 15% in premarket trading on Friday, after its quarterly revenue forecast disappointed investors who had bet the stock would be a major beneficiary in the race to adopt artificial intelligence. The networking and cybersecurity services provider will also lay off about 20% of staff due to \u200cgreater use of \u2060AI \u2060tools, a move that Jefferies said could hurt near-term growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007508,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007446\/revisions\/1007508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}