New data shows AI bots pushing deeper into the web, prompting publishers to roll out more aggressive defenses.

Bots now account for nearly half of all internet traffic globally, with so-called “bad bots” responsible for a third. The proportion of internet traffic generated by bots hit its highest level last ...

RAG bots could overtake human visitors on publisher sites this year, trackers tell us The AI bot takeover of the internet ...

In 2024, 51% of all internet traffic fell on bots, Thales report claims Not all bots are malicious, but many are Travel and retail industries are particularly hit Bots, automated programs that run ...

Akamai has published a new 2024 report on web traffic and found that 42% of all traffic is generated by bots, and considerable percentages of these bots in sub-sections of the internet are "high risk" ...

Investors have been spooked by the arrival of DeepSeek's chatbot, sparking a rout in high-flying tech titans - Copyright AFP GREG BAKER Investors have been spooked by ...

In brief: Automated bots are a dime a dozen on the modern Internet, performing a variety of tasks ranging from helpful to harmful. What you may not realize is just how prolific bad bots are, and how ...

New standards are being developed to extend the Robots Exclusion Protocol and Meta Robots tags, allowing them to block all AI crawlers from using publicly available web content for training purposes.

Alright, pal, you wanna keep reading? Why don’t you tell me which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it? According to CloudFlare, nearly one-third of all internet traffic is now bots. Most ...