AI bots are increasingly affecting website performance, analytics, infrastructure costs, and content visibility. New research and infrastructure data suggest that the challenge is no longer simply ...

The EU ordered Meta to restore WhatsApp access for rival AI assistants within five days, citing “serious and irreparable damage to competition.” Meta will appeal. The investigation has no deadline and ...

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 ...

shows signage of the Cloudflare logo during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos. INA FASSBENDER/Getty Images For the first time since the web opened to the public, machines now ...

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 ...

WordPress hosting company WP Engine Inc. today added bot management to its Global Edge Security service, giving site operators a way to filter the growing volume of automated and artificial ...

On May 7, 2026, Telegram became the first billion-user messaging platform to enable native, direct communication between autonomous AI bots — a capability that developers and AI researchers have ...

Minecraft Java Edition finally debuts a built-in Friends list feature. Players can invite friends to join their world without servers or Realms. This feature works similarly to the Bedrock Edition ...

As a professional writer, Sarah Suzuki Harvard says she isn’t inclined toward overtly exuberant prose. But these days, she finds herself going rogue. “I’ll use aggressively casual language, like, ‘hey ...

The only essential requirement is to have Node.js (version 22 or higher) and a package manager installed on your system. The recommended package manager for OpenClaw ...

Sci-Hub, a pirate website that illegally hosts tens of millions of scientific papers, has launched an artificial intelligence–based chatbot that mines the database and answers questions based on what ...