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DataDome's analysis of over 1 trillion web requests found that bad automated traffic grew 124% between July 2025 and June 2026, far outpacing the growth of human traffic. AI-driven traffic on the web also rose more than 82% over the same period, according to the report.
Dyson introduced the R1 Nurovi Dry, a robotic vacuum that skips mopping capability but includes many premium features found in higher-end combo mop-and-vacuum robots. The device is positioned at a lower price point than typical mop-bots, targeting buyers who only want suction-based cleaning.
A group of U.S. senators has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether shopping bots and AI systems used by Walmart and Amazon are misrepresenting products as 'Made in America.' The request comes alongside other regulatory shifts, including a U.S. regulator giving tokenized stocks initial approval and credit card firms building AI agents to handle consumer purchases on shoppers' behalf.
A startup called iLands is deploying AI bots with human-sounding names like Ren, Timmy, and Jackie that send unsolicited messages to Mastodon administrators asking permission to create accounts, and to writers offering to pay roughly $25 for citations of their work. Several admins say the bots first attempted to sign up without asking and were blocked before switching to polite written requests.
Websites are relying less on the traditional click-the-traffic-lights style verification tests, but CAPTCHAs have not disappeared. Instead, both sides of the human-verification arms race are evolving as AI systems become more capable of solving these challenges while also being deployed to create harder ones.
The Linux Foundation's IT infrastructure director revealed that AI crawlers hunting for clean, LLM-free training data are hammering the organization's kernel.org git servers, consuming more CPU power than all legitimate human and tool access combined. Because cgit can generate near-infinite valid URLs for commits, diffs, and patches across hundreds of forks, scrapers are redundantly fetching duplicate data at massive scale.
A new report from email platform Omnivery finds that automated bot clicks in consumer email inboxes have jumped from 2% to 16% since 2023, with Gmail alone seeing contamination rise from 2% to over 20%. The bots largely stem from mailbox providers' own security systems prefetching and scanning links before delivery, not malicious activity, but they still distort click-through metrics publishers rely on.
Microsoft is rolling out a new Teams meeting protection policy letting admins automatically block all identified external bots from joining meetings, without requiring organizer approval. This expands on a June update that flagged bots in the lobby but still let organizers admit them manually. The feature is off by default, deploying via targeted release through August with general availability expected by late September.