This month, California became the first state to require bots to openly identify as automated online accounts. On July 1, nine months after being signed into law, California’s SB 1001—the "Bolstering ...

Bots now account for nearly half of all internet traffic globally, with so-called “bad bots” responsible for a third. The proportion of internet traffic generated by bots hit its highest level last ...

While humans built the internet, actual people aren’t the ones roaming the online space the most. A new report from Thales says bots accounted for more than 53% of all web traffic in 2025, up from 51% ...