AI Weekly Malaysia

Cloudflare reports it is now the fastest provider in 74% of the world's 1,000 largest networks, up from 60% at its April 2026 Agents Week update — an additional 150 networks and 38 countries where it now ranks fastest. The measurement ranks the top 1,000 networks by APNIC-estimated user population and compares providers on connection time (time to complete a TCP handshake), ranked by a trimean of the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles. It also introduces a new methodology that runs background fetches from Cloudflare Challenge Pages to compare connection times against Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Google, Fastly and Akamai.

Why: The headline number is a vendor's own self-reported benchmark, and the metric is TCP handshake time measured partly from Cloudflare-branded error and challenge pages — not your app's p95 latency, TLS setup, or origin fetch time for users in Malaysia. If you are picking or renegotiating an edge/CDN provider on the strength of this claim, treat it as a directional signal only and instrument your own real-user latency for your actual Malaysian traffic before switching; the post does not name which countries or networks improved, so you cannot check whether your users are in the 74%.

On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer argued that AI agents are generating a surge in web traffic that benefits the three big CDN/edge companies — Fastly, Cloudflare and Akamai — and said Akamai is the only one he'd buy now, citing its lower valuation and an $11.6 billion Anthropic commitment. The segment cites year-to-date share moves of 159% for Fastly, 78% for Cloudflare and 22% for Akamai, versus roughly 12% for the S&P 500. The article is a stock-picking segment; it contains no product launches, pricing changes, benchmarks or technical detail.

Why: There is no actionable build or buying decision in this text — it is a TV stock pick, not a product, pricing or platform announcement. The one detail a builder might note is the claimed link between AI agent activity and web traffic growth, which is worth checking against your own CDN/egress bill before treating 'agent traffic' as a real cost line rather than an investor narrative. Note also the $11.6 billion Anthropic commitment attributed to Akamai is stated without terms, scope or timing, so it cannot be used to predict anything about Akamai's service or pricing for you.