AI News Half the AI bot traffic hammering your website comes from Meta

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/19/datadome-ai-agent-traffic-report/

AI agent traffic across DataDome’s network grew 41.5% quarter over quarter to nearly 25 billion requests in Q3 2026, according to the company’s AI Traffic Report Q3 2026.

Meta’s Muse generated 29.1 million requests between September 22 and October 3, its first 12 days of full availability.
In a sample of Muse traffic, 99.3% of requests came from cloud and CDN infrastructure.
Nearly half of the AI agent traffic recorded in 2026 through September occurred in Q3.
The growth had left capacity plans and bot-management policies based on the previous quarter’s averages out of date.

Half the AI bot traffic hammering your website comes from Meta - Help Net Security

DataDome reports AI agent traffic rose 41.5% in Q3 2026 as agentic browsers surged and Meta’s Muse reached sensitive online forms.

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[Morro]

Why does that not surprise me?

 

[Parkinsond]

Why does that not surprise me?

Me neither.