It was only a matter of time before bots outnumbered humans on the internet, but many experts thought the flesh and blood majority would stand for a few more years. They were wrong—and the impact on ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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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.

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 ...

Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab. By Cade Metz ...

Microsoft says Teams will soon automatically tag third-party bots in lobbies, allowing organizers to control whether they can join meetings. As detailed in a new Microsoft 365 roadmap entry, the ...

People aren’t exactly taking kindly to Discord’s decision to roll out its privacy-invading age verification checks worldwide. In fact, there’s so much frustration with the move that rival voice-chat ...

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 ...