A Thales press release on its 2026 Bad Bot Report, which found that AI-driven bot attacks surged 12.5-fold. Both papers open with its finding that by 2025 automated programs generated more than half of the traffic on the web. It sets the scene of the datasphere as an ocean without metabolism: full of automatic code, with nothing that reasoned or paid its own way.
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- Agent infrastructure & the datasphere habitat
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@misc{thales2026aidriven,
title = {AI-driven Bot Attacks Surged 12.5x According to Thales Bad Bot Report},
author = {Thales},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Thales press release (2026 Bad Bot Report)},
url = {https://cpl.thalesgroup.com/about-us/newsroom/ai-driven-bot-attacks-surged-according-to-bad-bot-report},
}