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Perplexity Accused of Ignoring AI Scraping Blocks
TechCrunchnewscautiousAug 5, 2025
Cloudflare research shows Perplexity is scraping websites that explicitly blocked it by disguising its identity and changing user-agent signals to circumvent robots.txt protections.
“Cloudflare CEO who warned that AI is breaking the business model of the internet, particularly for publishers”
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PHP2Shell: Millions of Attacks, 1.5M Servers Unpatched on Day One
fk3wz6xe.r.us-east-1.awstrack.mecautiousOct 23, 2026
“Cloudflare CEO reporting thousands of PHP2Shell exploit attempts within 10 hours before announcement, tens of thousands within 45 minutes, and millions afterward.”
Bots Could Outnumber Humans by 1,000 to 1
TechSpotcautiousAug 11, 2026
“Cloudflare CEO discussing agentic AI behavior and providing examples of bot traffic growth”
Cloudflare OS turns agents into shareable micro-apps
Techstrong.aipositiveAug 7, 2026
“Stated that Cloudflare OS is how the company runs Cloudflare and that every employee needs the ability to build, iterate, and automate safely with AI.”
Bots have now passed human traffic online
Tom's HardwarecautiousJun 5, 2026
“Cloudflare CEO announced that agentic bot traffic has now surpassed human traffic online, faster than his previous prediction of 2027.”
Bots Outnumber Humans on the Internet
CNBCcautiousMar 31, 2026
“Predicted at SXSW that AI bots would exceed human traffic by 2027 due to generative AI's data requirements.”
Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says
TechCrunchcautiousMar 20, 2026
“Cloudflare CEO predicting that bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027 due to AI growth.”