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17 Aug 2026, 00:28 UTC · 2h ago
Cloudflare CEO Says the Internet Is Changing Exponentially
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince stated that AI agent traffic surpassed human activity on the company's network in May. — This represents a fundamental shift in internet traffic composition, suggesting a massive acceleration in the deployment of autonomous AI agents.
+0.60Cloudflare expects AI agent traffic on the web to be 1,000 times larger than human traffic within the next five years. — While highly ambitious, such a growth trajectory would exponentially increase demand for edge computing, security, and infrastructure services.
+0.40AI agentic traffic on Cloudflare's network increased by approximately 18x over the past 12 months. — Provides a concrete, high-growth baseline for AI adoption that validates the trend of AI agents replacing or augmenting human web activity.
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