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Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce as AI adoption reshapes operationsReuters · 2026.05.07A logo of CLOUDFLARE sits outside the company's house on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Yves HermanMay 7 (Reuters) - Cloudflare (NET.N), opens new tab said on Thursday it would cut about 20% of its workforce as the company restructures operations around the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence tools, and forecast second-quarter revenue slightly below Wall Street expectations.The internet infrastructure and cybersecurity company plans to cut more than 1,100 jobs globally. It had 5,156 full-time employees at the end of 2025, and expects charges between $140 million and $150 million associated with the job cuts in the second quarter.Cloudflare expects second-quarter revenue of $664 million to $665 million, just under analysts' estimate of $665.3 million, according to LSEG-compiled data. Adjusted earnings are projected at 27 cents per share, in line with expectations.Shares of the San Francisco-based company dropped roughly 19% in extended trading despite stronger-than-expected first-quarter results. 'AGENTIC AI-FIRST OPERATING MODEL'.Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince and co-founder Michelle Zatlyn said in a message to employees that the company was reimagining every team and function to operate in what they described as an agentic AI era.Cloudflare said the job cuts reflect a redesign of internal processes and roles, rather than a response to employee performance or short-term cost pressures.The company added that its own use of AI has increased more than sixfold over the past three months, prompting major changes in how teams operate.In the first quarter, Cloudflare reported revenue of $639.8 million, beating analysts' estimate of $621.9 million. Adjusted profit came in at 25 cents per share, above expectations of 23 cents per share.Shares of Cloudflare have risen 30.3% so far this year.IMPACT OF AI-DRIVEN AUTOMATIONThe announcement comes as concerns grow among investors and economists that AI-driven automation could disrupt industries and accelerate job losses in sectors most vulnerable to automation.In a similar move, payments firm Block (XYZ.N), opens new tab said in February that it would cut more than 4,000 jobs, opens new tab, nearly half its workforce, as part of an overhaul to embed AI across its operations.Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs economists said AI was responsible for 5,000 to 10,000 monthly net job losses in 2025 in the most exposed U.S. industries.Reporting by Anhata Rooprai in Bengaluru and Mrinmay Dey in Mexico City; Editing by Sahal Muhammed and Sherry Jacob-Phillips
Big Tech’s $725bn AI spending spree sends free cash flow to a decade lowSilicon Valley giants have transformed from asset-light cash machines to huge infrastructure investorsAI investments have already come at the expense of cash returns to shareholders © FT montageBig Tech’s record $725bn AI investment strategy is beginning to strain the resources of America’s largest companies, leaving them with less cash left over this year than at any point in the past decade.The combined free cash flow of the four “hyperscalers” — Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta — is expected to fall to roughly $4bn in the third quarter, according to Wall Street’s forecasts, down from an average of $45bn in each quarter since the Covid-19 pandemic six years ago.Their full-year free cash flow is set to hit the lowest level since 2014, when their revenues were about a seventh of their current size, according to analysts’ estimates compiled by Visible Alpha.It is a striking turn for companies that have rapidly transformed from relatively asset-light cash generators into some of the world’s biggest investors in physical infrastructure.“This is the deepest industry-wide capex cycle they have had,” said Justin Post, an internet analyst at Bank of America. “They see it as a once in a lifetime opportunity.”The free cash flow metric is closely watched as a measure of the cash companies have left to service debt or return to shareholders after covering their operating costs and capital spending.Amazon is expected to spend more cash than it generates this year. Meta will burn cash in the second half, as will Microsoft in at least one quarter. Alphabet’s full-year free cash flow will stay positive but drop to its lowest level in more than a decade, analysts expect.After largely funding their investments from their income for the first few years of the AI boom, these tech giants face trade-offs more familiar to capital-intensive businesses: cutting jobs, reducing shareholder returns or borrowing to fund the build-out.Post said the companies had started the capital expenditure drive with strong balance sheets, so they were running less risk by adding some debt during a short period of negative free cash flow.Analysts project their cash generation will improve next year as the AI spending leads to more revenue.“They are choosing to invest in infrastructure over near-term capital returns to shareholders,” he added. “They’re all trying to catch up on demand right now.”AI investments have already come at the expense of cash returns to shareholders. Alphabet bought back no stock in the first quarter for the first time since its share repurchase programme began in 2015.During the quarter, the company issued $31bn in new debt and on Tuesday issued another $17bn worth of euro and Canadian dollar bonds.“Our ability to invest in this moment and stay at the frontier . . . puts us in a strong position,” chief executive Sundar Pichai said last week. Meta has also issued $55bn of debt over the past six months while pausing share buybacks. It marks the longest pause in repurchases since the company began buying back its own stock in 2017.Unlike its rivals, Meta does not have a cloud business to rent out space in the data centres it builds. Executives have turned to staff cuts to free up resources for the investment programme.When pressed by an analyst last week, Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive, acknowledged Meta did not have “a very precise plan for exactly how each product is going to scale month-over-month”.Amazon, meanwhile, is expected to burn about $10bn in cash during the year, according to Visible Alpha estimates. It has said it will invest $200bn in 2026, the most out of its peers.Andy Jassy, Amazon’s chief executive, told investors that the AI build-out was reminiscent of the group’s early bet on its AWS cloud business, which weighed on its balance sheet for years before becoming the source of more than half its profits.“The free cash flow and [return on invested capital] for these investments are cumulatively quite attractive a couple of years after being in service,” he said.Jassy added that in periods of “very high growth, like now” capital expenditure meaningfully outpaces the growth in revenue from those investments, meaning “early-year free cash flow is challenged”.As Big Tech steps up its spending, some analysts have become concerned about the moves companies are taking to flatter their financial metrics.Tech groups, including Meta, have shifted tens of billions of dollars of data centre projects off their balance sheets using special-purpose holding companies.These vehicles can bring in Wall Street investors to help fund the infrastructure and raise debt that does not fully appear on the tech company’s balance sheet. But they can also obscure who is ultimately on the hook if data centre demand disappoints.Larry Ellison’s Oracle has also used off-balance-sheet structures as it pursues a huge bet on building data centres under a $300bn contract with OpenAI. It began to burn cash last year and is not expected to return to positive cash flow until its 2030 financial year.Christian Leuz, an accounting professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, said that because “free cash flow” is not defined in standard accounting rules companies have some discretion in how they calculate it, such as how they treat share-based compensation or leased data centres.“The real free cash flows of many hyperscalers are probably worse than what they call their free cash flows,” he said.The AI spending surge is flowing into a strained hardware supply chain, increasing prices for components such as memory chips and making data centres more expensive to build and equip.Microsoft said price inflation would add $25bn to its capex needs this year, while Meta also cited rising costs as it added $10bn to its investment forecast.On top of tens of billions in new data centre leases, the value of servers, networking equipment and software on Microsoft’s balance sheet has more than tripled since mid-2022, from $61bn to $191bn.Morgan Stanley’s analysts called all the spending “very compressive to [Microsoft’s] near-term free cash flow”.Leuz said Big Tech’s AI build-out resembled the capital cycles seen in cyclical industries with heavy fixed-asset investment, such as telecoms or chemicals, where over-investment eventually leads to overcapacity, depressed margins and weak returns.But tech bosses feel compelled to keep up with their rivals for fear of being left behind by a technology they believe will be transformational.“They have to invest when their competition invests,” he said. “It is essentially a prisoner’s dilemma [and] this in turn reinforces the capital cycle.”
El israelí Liran Wizman compra el convento centenario de las Esclavas del Sagrado Corazón para hacer un hotel de lujohttps://www.elespanol.com/madrid/capital/20260506/israeli-liran-wizman-compra-convento-centenario-esclavas-sagrado-corazon-hacer-hotel-lujo/1003744233935_0.htmlEl edificio está en el Barrio de las Letras y es del siglo XIX. Ha sido comprado por la empresa hotelera Sircle Collection y la inmobiliaria Take Point.https://www.hola.com/hola-living/20260127879195/asi-es-el-emblematico-edificio-de-madrid-que-acogera-casa-decor-2026/----------De derrota, en derrota... hasta la derrota final.
[A pianista...... sobre el porqué del «fue una burbuja, ahora es una ESTAFA», independientemente de que se den todos los elementos que configuran en tipo penal. Fijaos que no nos interesamos en la estafa propiamente dicha (engaño + daño), sino en la palabra estafa.La metáfora es un truco de la mente para manejar abstracciones. Desde Lakoff sabemos que el pensamiento es metafórico. La metáfora no es un mero recurso literario.Es un mecanismo cognitivo automático e inconsciente que estructura la forma en que entendemos conceptos abstractos. A través de lo que Lakoff denominó «metáforas conceptuales» (por ejemplo, entender 'el amor es un viaje'), nuestro cerebro utiliza sus circuitos neuronales para asignar la estructura de experiencias concretas y físicas (como moverse) a ideas complejas y subjetivas (como las emociones).Además, Lakoff desarrolló la teoría de los ESQUEMAS MENTALES ('image schemas'), que son patrones gestálticos y dinámicos que emergen directamente de nuestra interacción sensomotriz con el mundo. Estos esquemas prelingüísticos son la base sobre la que se construyen las metáforas conceptuales, anclando el razonamiento abstracto en la experiencia física.El trabajo de Lakoff tiene una conexión significativa con la PROGRAMACIÓN NEUROLINGÜÍSTICA: el lenguaje modela la experiencia subjetiva para influir en la conducta ('FRAMING').Rechazamos la información que llega a nuestro cerebro pero no casa con nuestros esquemas mentales o marcos conceptuales (sesgo de confirmación, disonancia cognitiva). Hay un punto de este proceso en el que el cerebro da paso a una reorganización mental o 'REFRAMING' (reencuadre). Entonces, reconoces que «tal cosa me ha roto los esquemas» o «me ha volado la cabeza». Pero este proceso gradual no lo es linealmente: hay un momento en la sustitución en la conciencia que se experimenta como umbral crítico. Lo importante es tener activado el marco alternativo de sustitución.Con la suelta del nuevo patrón de Producción-Renta-Gasto planificado o coordinado, que sustituye al popularcapitalista de los 1980, ha llegado el momento de enarbolar la palabra estafa. En este campo es donde juega la metáfora de la ESTAFA, que luego resulta que no es tan metáfora, cuando pasan los años y te das cuenta que tu vida solo ha servido para pagar un pisito y poner rico a quien te lo colocó. Aunque, como hemos dicho otras veces, todos los que compran viviendas se arrepienten a los seis meses.Finalmente, si no es una estafa, ¿sería una inversión tipo «bendita mierda que es todo»?, como está intentando hacernos creer el anglo desde mediados de los 2010, que para tapar sus vergüenzas financieras (en gran parte por culpa del Ladrillo), lo que dice que nos toca a los demás es estar jodidos.A mí me parece fenomenal que se diga que no es una estafa. Pero exijo que se me diga, si no, qué leches es. Y lo exijo por mi esfuerzo en entender qué pasa, hacer una síntesis, buscar la salida y ponerle fechas al proceso.]