Americans are living in parallel AI universes. For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, and the slop that now clogs social-media feeds. Meanwhile, tech hobbyists ...

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

A simulation shows that social media bots powered by today’s AI can infiltrate human networks on social media and influence ...

A new report out today from edge cloud platform provider Fastly Inc. has found that bot traffic continues to reshape the modern web, as artificial intelligence crawlers, fetchers and increasingly ...

Googlebot once again generated more traffic than any other crawler in 2025, according to a new Cloudflare report. It outpaced every search and AI bot as Google continued crawling the web for search ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. AI-controlled bots have become a significant part of online multiplayer games. You can find them in titles like Fortnite, Mecha Break, Marvel Rivals, ...

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A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly suggests AI crawlers made up almost 80% of all AI bot traffic in recent months – with crawlers from Meta making up more than half of total traffic ...

This alarming report uncovers how bots and AI are flooding the internet with misinformation and eroding trust. As automated systems outpace human moderation, the web risks becoming a chaotic landscape ...

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly reveals what it called “a striking shift in the nature of automated web traffic” with a recent analysis of traffic indicating that AI crawlers ...

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The ...