About this episode
The episode discusses the rise of bots surpassing human web traffic and various technology news including IPOs and AI advancements.
Bots passed human web traffic for the first time, per Cloudflare's CEO. The S&P 500 rejected fast-entry for mega-cap IPOs like SpaceX. Anthropic embedded engineers at the NSA, Meta hid face-recognition code in its app, and Cambridge trialed the first AI-designed vaccine. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is "growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time" (Tom's Hardware) S&P Dow Jones rejects proposals to expedite S&P 500 eligibility for mega-cap IPOs such as SpaceX's; companies remain ineligible until one year after their IPOs (Bloomberg) Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations (FT) Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased "NameTag" face-recognition system for its AI smart glasses over multiple Meta AI app updates in 2026 (Wired) University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans (BBC) Longreads A preview of what to expect from WWDC on Monday, including iOS 27, a revamped Siri…
Topics covered
- web traffic
- bots
- IPO
- AI vaccine
- face recognition
- cyber operations
- technology news
Keywords
- bots
- web traffic
- Cloudflare
- SpaceX
- AI vaccine
- Meta
- NSA
- IPO
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Cloudflare, S&P 500, SpaceX, Anthropic, NSA, Meta, Cambridge, BBC, Bloomberg, Wired
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