Cloudflare CEO says AI agents are a bane for website operators
Original title: AI agents are a ‘bane’ for some website operators, says Cloudflare
CEO predicts AI agents will generate 1000x human traffic, impacting website costs, and suggests containers may become obsolete.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince stated that AI agents are a bane for some website operators as they scrape menus and cause costs without benefits. He also mentioned that nation-state actors likely exploited PHP vulnerabilities before disclosure and that containers might not keep up with agentic paradigms. Cloudflare expects to profit from security issues and agent traffic.
Unconfirmed: The exact number of exploited PHP vulnerabilities and specific nation-state examples are not named.
- AI agents expected to be 1000 times human traffic
- Containers may become obsolete due to cost issues
- Cloudflare revenue grew 39% YoY to $782.5M
- Five percent of web opted into Cloudflare products since July
- Vendors
- Cloudflare
- Products
- Cloudflare Workers
- Countries
- sovereign nations
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3 min read at theregister.comCEO says sovereigns probably exploited PHP2SHELL ages ago, and suggests containers are dead
By Simon Sharwood · theregister.com
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