Bot traffic has surpassed humans on the Internet. The winners in the next infrastructure cycle are the companies building trust rails for machines: agent identity, intent verification, API-native ...

Cloudflare's CEO didn't expect this to happen until next year.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has warned that automated bot traffic could overtake human activity on the internet by 2027, a projection that carries serious consequences for publishers, advertisers, ...

Cloudflare says 57.4% of requests to a selection of websites it hosts are now automated bot requests, while 42.6% are human-generated.

Six months ago, I wrote about the AI bots crisis facing publishers: Traffic is plummeting, unauthorized scraping is surging and the industry is scrambling to protect its assets. The problem of ...

shows signage of the Cloudflare logo during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos. INA FASSBENDER/Getty Images For the first time since the web opened to the public, machines now ...

What just happened? The internet has passed a very unwelcome milestone: for the first time in history, bots have surpassed human traffic online. The announcement came from Cloudflare CEO and ...

AI bots trade in 0.01 seconds and claim up to 40% annual gains. But research shows 80% of retail bot users lose money. Here's what the 2026 data actually says.