Bots have overtaken humans in generating internet traffic for the first time, according to Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare, a leading internet infrastructure and cybersecurity company.

Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance ...

"Welp, that happened faster than I predicted." That's what Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince had to say as his company released data finding that there's now more traffic from bots than humans on the ...

Spam has unveiled a new product perfect for the dog days of summer. The canned meat brand is now making hot dogs, it announced on its website. The company described the Spam dog as a "reimagination of ...

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Justin Diego doesn’t typically avoid the spotlight. He’s a celebrity news influencer with 617,000 combined followers across YouTube and Instagram. So when he created a secret account on X in 2024 to ...

Nikita Bier says no technology exists that can fix crypto reply spam on X. Solana cofounder Toly calls X a "horrible website" but the least worst option. X purged 1.7 million bots and plans auto-lock ...

Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn’t get a handle on the bots overrunning its site. On Wednesday, Reddit said it’s taking on the challenge itself. The company will begin ...

TL;DR: The Digg team believes the "Dead Internet theory" is no longer just a theory. Much of the open web is now populated by bots and AI agents, and competing with established players in the social ...