From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.

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

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

A new report released today by Thales SA had found that bot traffic now makes up nearly half of all internet traffic globally and that bad bots account for a significant number of those bots. The ...

Human traffic is dwindling and CTR rates are dropping as the internet gears up to accept more AI bots than human users.

There was a time, just a couple of decades ago, when researchers in psychology and health always had to engage with people face-to-face or using the telephone. The worst case scenario was sending ...

Humanity is in for a hard reset. AI bots are eying 2047 as the year machines will rise and overtake their human creators to become their real-world “overlords.” The year repeatedly appears in ...

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Automated and malicious traffic rises for a fifth consecutive year MEUDON, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thales, the cybersecurity leader that protects critical applications, APIs, and data, anywhere at ...

Artificial intelligence bots are running rampant on the internet as they scour for data to train language models. Much of that data includes content created by real-deal humans, and many are unhappy ...

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 ...

GLOBAL internet traffic increased 19 percent in 2025 as automated bot activity intensified, cyberattacks escalated and post-quantum encryption reached a major milestone, according to an annual review ...