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Bots now outnumber human traffic on the web. Cloudflare's CEO wants AI companies to pay for it

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Fortune · Sep 18

New Survey Reveals Most Workers Expect AI to Eliminate Jobs, Not Create Them

As AI adoption grows, employees express concerns over job security and potential layoffs, fearing companies may use AI to cut costs by reducing workforce numbers.

International Business Times UK · Jun 11

AI agents now drive more web traffic than humans — is India any different?

For the first time, artificial intelligence agents have generated more web traffic than humans globally, according to Cloudflare. This shift, driven by the rapid growth of AI agents, means over 57% of HTTP requests now originate from bots, surpassing human activity.

The Economic Times · Jun 7

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 · May 21

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 · May 12

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.

Barchart · May 11

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 · Mar 20

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 · Dec 5, 2025

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 · Nov 19, 2025

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 · Nov 19, 2025