Bots now generate most web traffic for the first time, with Cloudflare reporting automated traffic crossed 50% in June and now accounts for nearly 58% of all webpage requests. A separate report from H…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince reported on June 3 that 57.4% of HTTP requests to web content on Cloudflare Radar are now automated, surpassing human traffic earlier than the expected 2027 threshold. Th…
AI agents now generate the majority of web traffic, with bot activity surpassing human activity in June, according to CloudFlare, which reported bots accounted for 57.5% of webpage requests. Traffic f…
A Korn Ferry survey of 15,000 professionals found that 41% of employees reported their organization had cut management layers in the past year, with AI dispersing coordination tasks into automation ra…
Automated requests surpassed human traffic on the web for the first time in June 2026, with Cloudflare Radar data showing 57.5% of HTML web traffic coming from machines versus 42.5% from humans, accor…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced on June 3, 2026, that bot and agentic AI traffic had surpassed human-generated web traffic for the first time, with bots accounting for roughly 57.4% to 57.5% o…
OpenAI has hired Cloudflare engineering manager Kate Reznykova as a member of technical staff to strengthen its web infrastructure team, which focuses on application-layer tasks such as web routing an…
Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are conducting large-scale layoffs while simultaneously investing heavily in AI, reallocating resources toward artificial intelligence. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince sugges…
Microsoft eliminated about 4,800 jobs in its latest round of layoffs, remaining profitable while investing heavily in AI. Similar workforce reductions at Amazon, Meta, Cloudflare, and Cisco have becom…
Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default on ad-supported pages starting September 15, replacing its Pay Per Crawl model with a Pay Per Use system that charges AI companies only when their content …
Cloudflare Radar data shows automated bots now generate 57.4% of HTML page requests, surpassing human traffic for the first time. The milestone signals a shift in web infrastructure demands, as AI-dri…
Cloudflare launched Drop on July 8, 2026, a frictionless edge ingestion service allowing anonymous static site uploads for one-hour previews, with a post-claim feature enabling AI agents to access con…
Cloudflare announced a research pilot with OpenAI to use its network data to improve AI search accuracy, despite having spent the past year helping websites block AI crawlers. The pilot feeds signals …
Cloudflare and OpenAI launched a research pilot to use Cloudflare's real-time network signals to improve AI search engines' indexing and crawling of the web, aiming to enhance the accuracy and timelin…
Cloudflare announced plans to automatically block mixed-use web crawlers that index sites for search engines and also serve AI companies, starting September 15, 2026. The hosting platform will default…
Cloudflare announced a new policy that will block mixed-use web crawlers from ad-supported pages by default starting September 15, 2026, forcing AI companies to separate search crawlers from those use…
Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers from accessing ad-supported websites by default starting September 15, 2026, aiming to give publishers more control over AI data usage. The company also reb…
Cloudflare announced new tools, analytics, and partnerships to help site owners control AI access to their content, aiming to foster a collaborative agentic economy. The company will test new default …
Cloudflare announced it will block mixed-use web crawlers from accessing ad-supported customer websites by default starting September 15, 2026, to give publishers more control over AI content harvesti…
Cloudflare's engineering team grew 45% to 1,894 after cutting 1,100 jobs in May, as CEO Matthew Prince says AI eliminates "measurer" roles while builders and sellers thrive. The pattern, confirmed by …