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AI bots are generating more internet traffic than humans for first time in history

Shift likely driven by exponential rise of websites powered by AI

The Independent UK

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

The rapid increase in agentic internet traffic means “bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history,” remarked CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince.

Tom’s Hardware

Cloudflare layoffs: After firing 20% staff, CEO Matthew Prince explains in op-ed on "how to decide which employees AI should replace"

Cloudflare layoffs: Cloudflare has laid off over 1,100 employees, nearly 20% of its workforce, despite record revenue growth. CEO Matthew Prince explained the cuts target 'measurers' whose roles are being automated by AI, allowing investment in 'builders' and 'sellers'. The company is restructuring around AI-driven operations, offering generous severance packages.

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'Shut The F*** Up': Chamath Palihapitiya Slams Cloudflare CEO Over Memo After 1,000 AI Layoffs

Cloudflare laid off over 1,000 employees to shift focus to AI. Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya criticized the CEO's memo, calling it insensitive and harmful to laid-off workers seeking new jobs.

International Business Times UK

Cloudflare posted record revenue, then cut 20% of its workforce. CEO Matthew Prince says AI has made an entire category of workers obsolete

Prince said in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed that the company would cut “measurers” while prioritizing hiring of “builders” and “sellers.”

Fortune

Cloudflare Q1 Earnings Call Highlights

Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) reported a strong first quarter of 2026, with revenue rising 34% year over year to $639.8 million, as executives said demand tied to AI, agentic workloads and its Workers developer platform continued to accelerate. Co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said the company began the y

MarketBeat

Cloudflare Stock Plunges Amid 20% Job Cuts. Executives Are Blaming AI.

Even after solid Q1 numbers, Cloudflare could not escape investor anxiety over its aggressive AI restructuring plan and massive workforce reduction.

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AI bots will outnumber humans on the internet by next year, Cloudflare boss says

AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini are causing a massive shift in who – and what – is browsing the internet

The Independent UK

Cloudflare says it has fended off 416 billion AI bot scrape requests in five months — CEO warns of dramatic shift for internet business model

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said that blocking AI bots and giving website owners the option to license their content to AI companies could help maintain online publication's viability as a business in the future.

Tom’s Hardware

Yesterday's global internet outage caused by single file on Cloudflare servers — unexpected file size caused catastrophic error, knocking out several major websites

Cloudflare reports that a feature file had unexpectedly doubled in size due to an error, leading its Bot Management system to fail.

Tom’s Hardware

Cloudflare apologises for 'the pain we caused the Internet' and admits a file size error brought down large parts of the web yesterday, not a malicious cyberattack

A teeny, tiny bug turned into a major internet outage.

PC Gamer

Cloudflare outlines what caused major outage - but says a hack wasn't to blame

Cloudflare says its November 2025 outage was caused by a system error.

TechRadar

Cloudflare CEO says Google is abusing its monopoly in search to feed its AI

“Google is using a dominant position that they have in search to leverage their way into AI," Matthew Prince says.

Fortune

Tech Expert Claims Russia Behind Major UK Cyber Attack, Using Gaza Conflict as 'Cover'

Cloudflare's CEO warns Russia is behind crippling cyber attacks on Heathrow, Jaguar Land Rover and M&S, using the Gaza conflict as a smokescreen to strike UK infrastructure and businesses.

International Business Times UK

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Cloudflare CEO warns of a 'Black Mirror' outcome if Sam Altman or other AI people control the media

"It could be that we go back to a time where there are five powerful families out there that control all information," Prince warned, like the Medicis in Renaissance Italy.

Fortune

Google’s AI is the ‘worst’ for stealing content, says People CEO

But Google-owned YouTube could provide a model for media and AI to coexist and thrive, says internet industry pioneer Bill Gross.

Windows Central

This $5 subscription wants to save online journalism from low-effort AI summary slop — but it'll only work if publishers opt in first

Publishers must opt in to Perplexity's $5 'Comet Plus' model to get paid. Can it save online journalism from AI-generated summaries that drain revenue?

Windows Central

AI search is gutting publisher revenue — This startup's $5 plan aims to fix that

AI scraping publisher content for free is becoming a major issue, and AI search startup Perplexity aims to fix that with a new $5 Comet Plus plan.

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Cloudflare is fighting to safeguard "the future of the web itself" — standing directly in the way of leading AI firms

Cloudflare has announced that its new "pay per crawl" model, which charges AI crawlers for data, is in beta, and site owners can now enroll.

The Independent UK

Football piracy blockade could kill people, internet boss warns

‘I pray no one dies,’ says Cloudflare chief executive

Fortune

CEO of $40 billion Cloudflare wishes he had taken a job offer at Microsoft or Yahoo before going to law school

Gen Z has regrets over their degree—and Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince agrees that he would have been successful sooner had he put off college and gone straight to work

Fortune

Can this tech billionaire save the media from an AI apocalypse?

The advent of AI has added to the media industry’s long list of business model woes in the internet age. Could salvation come from the bots?

PC Gamer

Cloudflare is allowing websites to block AI from scraping them and can even make bots pay for access

This can offer better safeguarding for site owners and content creators.

Fortune

Cloudflare is arming content creators with free weapons in the battle against AI bot crawlers

Cloudflare is providing tools that give website owners more control over who can access their data, as well as the ability to analyze how their content is used by AI models.

Fortune

Tech talent and killer powder: The recipe that startups say is fueling the rise of Utah's Silicon Slopes

Rather than importing talent from the San Francisco Bay Area, startups based in the so-called Silicon Slopes say they increasingly have local options for funding and experienced managers.

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