What happens when AI bot traffic starts to catch up with human visitors? Artificial intelligence is taking on a growing number of tasks that used to be purely human-centric. Now you can add surfing ...

A new report found that bots have surpassed human internet traffic. HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic year-over-year.

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

Cloudflare and GoDaddy are partnering to give websites control over AI crawlers, aiming to fix the web's broken business ...

The AI bot takeover of the internet continues apace, and the latest data suggests the surge is being driven less by model-training scrapes and more by the growing use of AI tools as a stand-in for web ...

Microsoft's Clarity has released a way to identify patterns that show how artificial intelligence (AI) crawlers, search bots, and automated agents interact with web content long before AI agents serve ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...