AI bots have surged 300% in a year, disrupting online operations, Akamai’s 2025 report shows. These bots, driven by content ...

The web archive Common Crawl has been quietly funneling paywalled articles to AI companies—and lying to publishers about it.

According to the Digital Fraud and Abuse Report 2025, AI bots now account for a rapidly expanding share of this traffic, with activity surging by 300% over the past year. These bots generate billions ...