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‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

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Tom's Hardware

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Jun 4, 2026

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Cloudflare's CEO Matthew Prince acknowledges that AI agent internet traffic has surpassed human traffic online, contrary to his previous predictions. This surge in agentic traffic involves AI agents browsing the web like humans for various tasks. Cloudflare's data shows a significant shift towards bot traffic, with bots accounting for 57.5% of HTTP requests. However, human users still dominate in terms of time spent on apps and streaming services. Cloudflare's breakdown of human vs. bot traffic by country reveals high bot activity in places like Gibraltar, Singapore, and Iran, with the latter attributed to VPN usage for automated scraping.

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Microsoft just killed Edge’s Collections and Sidebar for more Copilot, after years of pushing both features

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