Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is "growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time" (Mark Tyson/Tom's Hardware)

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Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware : Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is “growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time” — Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm's latest data.

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▪ Bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time — Hacker News (Newest)

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