Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

As the Web turns 25, it's becoming a terrific place if you're a bot. It began as a tool for human communication, but now, over 60 percent of the traffic on the Web is automated applications called ...

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